Denise, Ouch! I do not doubt your experience in Africa, however, your comment sounds like a terribly generalised condemnation of an entire continent. Paul ----- Original Message ----- From: "Denise N. Rall" <denrall@yahoo.com> Date: Monday, October 3, 2005 5:23 am Subject: RE: [Air-l] Fwd: [school-discuss] $100.00 laptop
Okay,
Great on the $100 laptop. But how many people on this list have actually worked in Africa?
Well I have, and I lived in a locked compound on an agricultural resarch station and the number one problem on the station was theft. I had a full time cook who checked up on my house during the day and a guard that patrolled the buildings at night.
All I had in the building was some furniture, a lamp and some clothes, no computers. I had a camera in there. The computers were kept elsewhere in a double locked room. The gates to the compound were also locked at night. There were as I mentioned, patrolling guards.
Down the road from us was the power station. It was surrounded by a DOUBLE barbed wire fence with a height of at least 2.5 meters. To keep people from stealing the electrical wire.
Well and fine but how long are those laptops going to stay in the hands of the children they are meant to help. Maybe if the kid also has a handy AK-47.
Cheers, Denise
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