A Charles Sturt University (CSU) student who has worked as a volunteer in Africa and outback Australia seeks donations of old laptop computers for use by medical charities. Mr Jarrod Wolhuter, a final-year nursing student in the CSU School of Nursing, Midwifery and Indigenous Health at CSU in Bathurst, overcame severe depression and social isolation in his youth to work to improve the lives of others in more isolated and disadvantaged locations. He has worked for non-government organisations (NGOs) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and in remote Australia. "Since enrolling in this degree I've lived and worked in two remote Indigenous communities, Wadeye in the Northern Territory, and Mornington Island at the bottom of the Gulf of Carpentaria, where I worked in aged care as an assistant in nursing. All these experiences were both amazing and heartbreaking. In the DRC I worked with doctors who referred to decades-old medical text books because that is all they had. With the number of outdated computers in Australia these days, I suspect there are many redundant laptops gathering dust that would be useful to health workers in disadvantaged areas in the DRC and elsewhere in Africa. Even a small number of donations can revolutionise practices in these remote areas." Mr Wolhuter says his goal now is to finish his degree at the end of 2015, attain the minimum requirements needed to work as a nurse with Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders), and return to wherever needs the most help. "In my heart I'd love to go back to DRC, but as long as I'm doing something constructive and learning, I'll be happy," he said.