[Grassroots-l] OLPC Afghanistan 1st deployment!

[Svetlana Senajova]

Dear all,

It's our pleasure to announce that the 1st deployment of 395 XOs has
happened in Afghanistan! Children of grades 4, 5 and 6 at Istiqlal high
school in Jalalabad received their XOs on 17th of March 2009.

XOs are fully localized into national languages of Afghanistan - Dari and
Pashto, and loaded with the educational, economic and health content,
together with user guides and help pages prepared also in Dari and Pashto.

Please find attached Press release. You can follow stories and new
deployments at www.olpc.af.

Under following link you can find pictures which can be freely used but
must be acknowledged as "Photos by DevelopmentPictures":

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jacobsimkin/sets/72157615555797400/


Kind Regards,

Svetla



Svetlana Senajova
Technical Implementation Manager
One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Project
PAIWASTOON Networking Services Ltd.

Email: svetla at paiwastoon.com.af
Phone:  0093 0796 505 768

PAIWASTOON Networking Services Ltd.
1st Street Kart-e-Se, House no. 5
Opposite Habibia High School
Kabul, Afghanistan

www.paiwastoon.com.af
www.olpc.af
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