On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 8:12 PM, William Stelzer <wtstel...@att.net> wrote:
> Awesome post Sora!! > Indeed! We'll even forgive her the very 1st sentence is factually incorrect (reality: most of those 4 Haitian towns' many deployments began long before Haiti's January 2010 earthquake :-) Here are the 2008 public archives for the archeologists/anthropologists among us, if you're curious where the "$5.1 Million" went, almost exactly half of which went to purchasing 13,700 XO-1 SKU24 laptops, if I understand these documents/archives correctly: http://idbdocs.iadb.org/wsdocs/getdocument.aspx?docnum=1364380 http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-haiti/ http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/kreyol/ > ------------------------------ > *From:* Adam Holt <h...@laptop.org> > *To:* Unleash Kids! <unleashk...@googlegroups.com>; server-devel < > server-devel@lists.laptop.org>; Community Support Volunteers -- who help > respond to help AT laptop.org <support-g...@lists.laptop.org> > *Sent:* Friday, July 11, 2014 12:38 AM > *Subject:* Re: [support-gang] How did 262 "abandoned" Haiti XOs cross the > road? > > On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 12:35 AM, Adam Holt <h...@laptop.org> wrote: > > And in the grand scheme of things, what in the end has Negroponte > wrought? Sora's blog post today gives one incredibly honest answer, live > from Haiti: > > > LINK FIXED: > http://projectrive.wordpress.com/2014/07/11/special-report-thomazeau/ > > > > > > Please everyone consider you too leaving your armchair like she did, to > come join her (age 18) and us (all ages) bringing valuable XO-1 laptops > back to life for thousands of children in Haiti. *Barely more than an > hour from Disney World,* with $59+tax flights to Haiti I've depended on, > lasting a heck of a lot longer than a single $99+tax day-pass to Disney > World. Or would you like to blow an entire year's salary of a Haitian > teacher on a premium Disney World pass for $754+tax including bonus free > parking! > > You Make The Choice. > > We chose learning together, face-to-face. > > We need more humble souls to escape the cyberbubble of empty glowing > rectangles, connecting with realities on the ground, supporting our XO+XS > volunteer workforce across Haiti. > > While none of the team's work above would have been possible without our > best friends the armchair humanitarians/engineers *paying it forward* > like George Hunt, Tim Moody, James Cameron, Bill Stelzer, Curt Thompson, > Nancie Severs, Paul Fox, Richard Smith, Nick Doiron etc ;-) > > *volunt...@unleashkids.org if you too can help !* > > -- > Unsung Heroes of OLPC, interviewed live @ http://unleashkids.org > > -- > <http://unleashkids.org/> > Unsung Heroes of OLPC, interviewed live @ <http://unleashkids.org/> > http://unleashkids.org ! > > > _______________________________________________ > support-gang mailing list > support-g...@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/support-gang > > > > > _______________________________________________ > support-gang mailing list > support-g...@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/support-gang > > -- > <http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/support-gang> > Unsung Heroes of OLPC, interviewed live @ > <http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/support-gang>http://unleashkids.org ! >
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