Georgetown : The Residents of Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara, are the latest recipients of laptops from the One Laptop Per Family (OLPF) project.
The OLPF continued its distribution and training for this phase in their village. Approximately 800 laptops were handed out to Mon Repos residents, who turned out in their numbers to welcome the initiative.
Information Communication Technology (ICT) hubs have been placed at the Mon Repos Health centre and the Phoenix Recovery Project rehabilitation building to commence training in use of the devices. A mutually convenient time is decided upon by recipients for further training in use and maintenance of the laptop if necessary. The training is provided for as a part of the project.
This distribution is part of a phase which will see some 17,000 laptops distributed in 2014, and which will account for approximately 50% of the entire OLPF project.
The residents were very grateful for the laptops, and shared how they stand to benefit. They said benefits ranged from communication with relatives to academic assistance.
”It will benefit me a lot for my daughter, especially now that she’s writing CSEC, the demand is there for information technology,” Yolanda Stewart said.
Gelien Thomas plans to utilise her laptop to stay connected to relatives abroad. “I have my sisters, brothers and daughter overseas and it would be less expensive than the phone to communicate by.”
Staff of the OLPF secretariat took the training and distribution exercises to the homes of the elderly who were on the list to receive.
It targets a total of 90,000 laptops, and many thousands of beneficiaries are already benefitting from the devices.
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