Illuminate Technology supporting Midlothian care leavers

Posted 11th February 2021

As part of the digital poverty campaign, Midlothian House Project managed to secure laptops and ipads for each young person in service, through Connecting Scotland. Once everyone knew we had then, two Midlothian young mum’s, worked together in preparing a proposal to MHP staff to request laptop bags for the devices provided by Connecting Scotland. After their outstanding proposal got the go head to sources laptop bags, staff looked at local companies for support and within 20 minutes of being contacted Illuminate Technologies LTD, provided 8 laptop bags to support the Midlothian House Project young people. @IlluminateTechnology

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