CHAS Blue Card Free Laptop
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Free Laptop - CHAS Blue Card Applicants
FREE REFURBISHED laptop/desktop for your primary school going child:
- Only for Chas Blue card family.
- If you have only 1 or 2 children, please apply for NeuPC first. A prove of rejection from NeuPC will be needed before we access your application with us.
- Application is not on 1st come 1st serve basis.
- Application might take months to process.
- Applicants cannot choose form factor and specifications of device.
- All successful applicants will be contacted either by phone or email.
- SGBono will never ask for donation or cash from any applicant.
Frequently Asked Questions
It is real. You have to have a valid (not expired) CHAS Blue card, and you have school-going kid(s) who have a need for computers/tablets for home-based-learning (HBL). We will also require a written commitment from the parent(s) to hold on to the computer(s)/tablet(s) for at least two years, to make sure the said student does indeed benefit from the donation.
For HBL, you will need internet connection. Without a home fibre broadband connection to internet, the computer is useless. You should not use mobile data for this HBL, because it will end up costing you more in your phone bill than the cost of buying a brand new computer. If you are in such a situation, we recommend that you apply for new computers and free broadband services under IMDA’s NeuPC Plus scheme instead (qualifying criteria is household income criteria is <=$3400 and PCI is <=$900, with school-going children).
Kindergartens have simpler graphics-based content, which can be done on smartphones which most parents have. Priority will be given to primary school students and above.
Please refer to: https://sgbono.org/gethelp/
We issue computers directly to eligible low-income families. In the process, we also provide advice and counselling to help families save money on their IT and communications costs (e.g. by using fibre broadband at home instead of mobile data), make better use of what they already have (e.g. we help them repair their computers, achieve better Wi-Fi speeds at home), and to obtain free or low-cost computers/fibre broadband services from government. We consider these services and advice as more important to low-income families than just giving them free computers and then leave them alone to their own devices.
Our website at http://sgbono.org has the full details. In summary, we provide 100% free help with repairs of IT products (you only pay for the replacement parts, at cost), give advice on how you can reduce your spendings on IT and communications products/services and optimize what you already have, and guide you in applying for government schemes for subsidized computers and broadband internet services.