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I know what you mean; I was in a similar situation growing up. One very unfortunate phenomenon among most of the kids I see today is that they are so swamped by “structured” activities that they have no time to “tinker” for the heck of it. They feel pressured that all their time ought to show returns on their resume/exams/applications/etc :-/

I would love to enable a few kids and engage with them so I might at least vicariously get some of the fun of tinkering.

Store doesn't load for me right now, so I might be wrong, but previously on pages of some devices I saw something like this written in a small print: "Pine64 offers this device at this price as a service to the community and doesn't make any profit out of this". So maybe not a final device like pine(book/phone/tab), but one of single-board computers?

Was thinking the same...school donations maybe?

Many libraries also have programs for children interested in tech, might be good to check with a local one.

I think Pine sells their products at cost so that won't benefit them directly.