Recycling

The Fernhurst Centre. It is happy to arrange disposal of all printers and domestic IT equipment, except bulky CRT monitors. Anyone wishing to use this service can bring their equipment in as we can store it in our shed until we have enough items for the Company we use to collect from us at no charge.

It must be IT equipment - no other electrical items.

It has taken the 20 sewing machines donated by local residents to the Fernhurst

Centre’s ‘Machines for Malawi’ Appeal three years to make the trip from Fernhurst

to the village of Zomba in Malawi but their arrival has caused quite a stir. In May

2016 the Centre put the call out for unused and unwanted sewing machines.

Trustee Antonia Plant’s daughter had recently volunteered at a rural school in

Malawi, where subsistence living is the norm and employment is hard to come by.

The local ladies were keen to learn tailoring skills which would enable them to

earn a living and make clothes for their families. The Fernhurst Centre could

never have predicted how successful the appeal would be (or how heavy those

old fashioned sewing machines were).

The 20 machines collected from the Fernhurst and Haslemere area came in all

shapes and sizes and dated from the 1920’s to the 1950’s, electric and manual, in

perfect working order or covered in dust and cobwebs. At the same time, laptops

and mobile phones, refurbished free of charge by Microsoft, were also collected

and space on a container given by a shipping company. UK Charity The Sparkle

Foundation oversaw the long journey and many customs checks and border

crossings until the pallet’s arrival in Zomba where it was unpacked by astonished

and delighted villagers.