Digital Donation Day LIVE - help get laptops and internet to Manchester s children
We re calling on businesses and individuals to support the campaign to help kids who are struggling to work from home (Image: Manchester Evening News)
The Manchester Evening News is today hosting a Digital Donation Day to help schoolchildren who are struggling to learn from home.
Thousands of youngsters across Greater Manchester are without the devices, data and internet connections to be able to remote learn while schools are closed to all but key worker and vulnerable children.
Some schools and colleges have yet to receive their full promised allocations of devices from the government, but even when they do, it s estimated that 20,000 young people will still be without either a device or data to give them the digital access they ll need.
Help children homeschooling without devices with the M.E.N s Digital Donation Day
Pupils working from home are in desperate need of devices and data to do their schoolwork
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media captionStorm Christoph causes flooding over Didsbury and Northenden
Thousands of homes narrowly escaped serious flooding as river levels came within centimetres of breaching defences in Manchester.
The Environment Agency said flood basins on the River Mersey in Didsbury came very close to being overwhelmed.
People evacuated from 2,000 homes overnight have been told they can return after river levels started to recede.
A major incident declared by Greater Manchester Police has been stood down. The latest update we have received has suggested that we are past the worst point of potential flooding, a spokesman said.
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