This month, students have the opportunity to give their used laptops a second life. St. Edward’s University Arabic professor Awad Abdelgadir is collecting laptops in working condition to donate to elementary schools in Sudan. Abdelgadir is part of a team that will be traveling to Sudan at the end of the semester to deliver the laptops and seek ideas for future service projects.

“We’re taking them to two schools—one in my village and one in a neighboring village, just to test them out and see how they work,” Abdelgadir said. “So each school would have about 10 computers. I’m from Sudan, and this is my village where we’re going to be