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One still per place. No reused war photograph.

Each destination has its own classroom or school visual. Generated to illustrate the education gap at that pin. Not a RecyclicTech delivery photograph, and not a child in a ruined classroom.

Inbound processing warehouse in Rădăuți: sealed cartons of donated IT on pallets — Illustrative — generated to show the place. Not a RecyclicTech delivery photograph. · Source: Rădăuți inbound depot

Rădăuți inbound depot

Every donated parcel is labelled here first: Strada Putnei 213, 725400 Rădăuți, Suceava, Romania. Not a public office.

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Empty village schoolyard, Cândești commune, Botoșani County, Romania — Illustrative — generated to show the place. Not a RecyclicTech delivery photograph. · Source: Cândești gymnasium brief

Școala Gimnazială Nr. 1 Cândești

A rural gymnasium in Cândești, Botoșani — one of the named schools publicly listed to receive computers through Dăm Click pe România.

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Brick village school in Mihăileni, Botoșani, on the Ukrainian border — Illustrative — generated to show the place. Not a RecyclicTech delivery photograph. · Source: Mihăileni gymnasium brief

Școala Gimnazială „Maria Enescu Cosmovici” Mihăileni

The gymnasium in Mihăileni, Botoșani — listed with Cândești in the same public Dăm Click pe România report.

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Whitewashed village school on the agricultural plains of Olt County, southern Romania — Illustrative — generated to show the place. Not a RecyclicTech delivery photograph. · Source: Rural Olt brief

Rural schools, Olt County

Olt is the second Romanian county RecyclicTech treats as a classroom destination after Botoșani — rural gymnasiums south of the Carpathians.

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Empty Digital Learning Center in Kharkiv Oblast: closed laptops, blackout curtains, generator — the UNICEF-documented device gap, not Freedom Square — Illustrative — generated to show the classroom. Not a RecyclicTech delivery photograph. · Source: Kharkiv destination brief

Kharkiv and Kharkiv Oblast

Hundreds of schools damaged or destroyed. UNICEF has sent thousands of laptops into Kharkiv Oblast because so much learning is still remote.

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Zaporizhzhia

Frontline city. UNICEF’s 2024 laptop round included Zaporizhzhia because so many children still study remotely.

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Dnipro

A large host city for displaced students, with Digital Learning Centers and UNICEF laptop distributions already on the record.

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Empty lyceum computer lab in Mykolaiv Oblast: taped windows, mixed old PCs and closed laptops — Snihurivka-type classroom, not the shipyard — Illustrative — generated to show the classroom. Not a RecyclicTech delivery photograph. · Source: Mykolaiv destination brief

Mykolaiv and Snihurivka

More than 60% of schools in Mykolaiv Oblast were studying online. UNICEF documented laptops reaching Snihurivka Lyceum.

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Odesa

A host city for displaced children. UNICEF included Odeska in the 2024 laptop rounds for kindergartens and schools.

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Empty northern-border village school computer room in Chernihiv or Sumy Oblast: winter light, old desktops, plywood on one window — not a city square — Illustrative — generated to show the classroom. Not a RecyclicTech delivery photograph. · Source: Sumy and Chernihiv brief

Sumy and Chernihiv

Border oblasts with repeated disruptions. Both were named in UNICEF’s 2024 laptop distribution.

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Empty Carpathian village school computer room in Zakarpattia: wooden floor, rushnyk, old PCs and closed laptops — Stavne / Svaliava / Kolochava country, not a tourism street — Illustrative — generated to show the classroom. Not a RecyclicTech delivery photograph. · Source: Zakarpattia destination brief

Zakarpattia — Stavne, Svaliava, Kolochava

Safer west. European partners have already delivered computers to village schools in Stavne, Svaliava and Kolochava — a documented success-story belt.

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Empty village-school computer room in rural Moldova: wood stove, lace curtains, closed laptops — the sending classroom, not Orheiul Vechi monastery — Illustrative — generated to show the classroom. Not a RecyclicTech delivery photograph. · Source: Rural Moldova brief

Rural Moldova — Orhei and the north

Europe’s steepest peacetime population collapse sits next door to Romania. Moldova educates; Germany, Italy and the rest of the west harvest.

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Empty village-school IT classroom in rural Serbia: closed laptops, blackboard, winter coats — the first leak, not a hillside postcard — Illustrative — generated to show the classroom. Not a RecyclicTech delivery photograph. · Source: Rural Serbia brief

Rural Serbia — villages and smaller cities

64.5% of Serbian youth would emigrate if given the chance. The state still pays for the education. Germany and Austria collect the adult.

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Empty northern Montenegro school computer lab: snow at the window, old PCs — the digital gap in the north, not the Bay of Kotor — Illustrative — generated to show the classroom. Not a RecyclicTech delivery photograph. · Source: Northern Montenegro brief

Northern Montenegro — Žabljak, the north, not Kotor

The Bay of Kotor is not the digital gap. The UN’s digital-skills programme is aimed at the poorest northern region. About a third of Montenegrin citizens live abroad.

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Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia and Herzegovina lost about a quarter of its people. IOM names it with Moldova and Ukraine as Europe’s steepest population declines. The education bill still goes to the sending state.

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