Kompjuteri Nade Equips a Student Computer Lab in Banovići, Bosnia

In April 2026, students at Mješovita Srednja Škola Banovići in Bosnia got a working computer lab: four computers and four monitors, donated through the ERA network and delivered by our Bosnian partner, Kompjuteri Nade.

Kompjuteri Nade — the name translates as "Computers of Hope" — does exactly what it says. The group takes refurbished equipment from the network and places it where it will be used hardest, then handles the unglamorous parts: transport, setup and making sure everything actually turns on for the first class.

Four complete workstations transform what a school can teach. Lessons that used to be theory — spreadsheets described on a whiteboard, coding explained but never typed — become things students do with their own hands. For teenagers heading into a job market that assumes computer skills, that difference follows them long after graduation.

Hope, delivered more than once

This is not Kompjuteri Nade's first delivery. The group earlier brought a donated laptop to KUD "Mirsad Hajduković" in Breza, a cultural heritage society keeping local tradition alive — a story we have shared on this blog. From heritage societies to high school labs, the pattern is the same: equipment somebody retired, doing real work in its second life.

Thank you to Kompjuteri Nade for carrying the network's donations the final mile, and to the staff at Mješovita Srednja Škola Banovići for turning four computers into a classroom full of possibility.

That lab began as retired business equipment. If your company is replacing computers or monitors, book a free pickup and put your old technology back to work.