I have nothing against donated goods, but I have to wonder if the people understand how communities are impacted by such donations.

On the hardware front, they are going to receive random equipment with very little time to plan how it is going to be distributed and how it is going to be used.

The situation is even worse for books. I had to deal with book donations before. The books were offered gratis to community members, yet barely any of them were taken. Simply put, people donated these books because they didn't want to read them (they were old and/or poorly written) or because the donor had some ideological objective in mind.