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UN to distribute 200,000 laptops to Gaza refugees
GAZA CITY - The UN agency for Palestinian refugees on Thursday launched a campaign to distribute some 200,000 laptops to schoolchildren in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, a spokesman said.Good grief. Okay, who wants the tech support contract? The UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) plans to distribute half a million devices to refugees across the Middle East by the end of 2012, spokesman Adnan Abu Hasna said. Ah, "refugees". Celebrating, what, their 62nd year of refugeedom? Don't kill the job, UNRWA... The campaign is beginning today in refugee schools in (the southern Gaza town of) Rafah, with the distribution of 2,200 laptops as part of a plan to distribute 200,000 laptops to our students in the Gaza Strip,' he said. The plan calls for linking pupils and teachers via wireless internet so that the students can continue their studies during crises,' Abu Hasna added. How many laptops are still working at the end of the month? And how many are taken by the men-folk to surf pr0n? The programme has received funding from US-based One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) and the Jordan Hashemite Charity Organisation, he said. Two more useless idiot organizations ... Posted by: Steve White 2010-04-30 |
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