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OLPF goes to Linden
Hundreds of Lindeners on Saturday flocked the Linden Constabulary Hall to collect
Lindeners eagerly await their Laptops
laptops from the One Laptop per Family programme.
Ranging in age from about 18 to about seventy, residents awaited their turn patiently for their numbers to be called to collect the Laptops. However while many expressed satisfaction that they were able to acquire the Laptops, there were quite a few disgruntled persons, who complained that although they had applied ever since the first batch of laptops were distributed, they were told that their names were not on the list.
“Now we‘re being told to reapply all over again. That is not fair to us- how come our names not on the list? This is not fair to us”, one woman complained.
But for many others the laptops represented a step closer to achieving computer literacy. “I don’t know anything about computers, but with this in the home I intend to learn, so it will be me and the children learning together,” a proud father said.
Approximately 500 laptops were dispersed, and it is expected that over the next couple of days, the same number will be distributed daily. The programme extends until Friday at the same venue, beginning at 10 in the mornings until four in the afternoons.
Junior Minister of Finance, Juan Edghill, described the programme as remarkable, adding, “Its indicative that residents of this town are interested in these programmes.”
“It is a clear sign that people are prepared to apply themselves to developmental programmes that are available to citizens of this country.
The One Laptop per Family programme was designed to give people development with dignity. This is not just charity, that you’re handing out something and you go home. This is to ensure that you have dignity as a person.
“You are moving into the information, communication, information technology age, and you shouldn’t be a bother to anyone at their home, to use their computer. Your children will have the opportunity now to do their SBAs and do their research.”
Edghill noted, too, that single mothers will now have the opportunity to become computer literate, thereby creating an environment where they would be ‘employable”.
He added that with the “new wave and the diversified sector” that is taking place presently requires people that are employable because they are computer literate.
The programme continues until Friday. Edghill said that within that period it is hoped that the residents of Region Ten would be adequately served. (Enid Joaquin)
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