[OLPC-Philippines] OLPC XO 1.5 pilot in Lubang, Occ. Mindoro

[Dr. Gerald Ardito]

Ditto!

This is very exciting work.

Gerald

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 10:40 AM, K Villa <krvilla at gmail.com> wrote:

> Congratulations are in order to you and everyone that put this all together
> and to the community that opened its mind and placed its trust to each and
> every effort so selflessly given.
>
> Kudos.
>
> /Karissa Villa
>
> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 10:20 PM, jgotangco at gmail.com <jgotangco at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Now it can be told - that the Philippines is now officially in the
>> list of countries that have deployed the OLPC program to a school.
>> Education Kindling has announced the launch of the OLPC program pilot
>> in Lubang, Occ. Mindoro today and was attended by Dep Ed secretary
>> Bro. Armin Luistro, FSC.
>>
>> I have been doing OLPC advocacy since 2008 and this resulted to
>> Education Kindling with some members of this mailing list. Seeing 95
>> kids now at the close of 2010 with OLPC XO-1.5 laptops in Lubang is a
>> dream come true for many of us here. Thank you Meg Simpson, Susan
>> Abaya and the members of the NCC alumni (I have lost count but you
>> know who you are) for making this happen, along with Mayor Sanchez and
>> the local government of Lubang. Kudos as well to the teachers involved
>> and the parents who have been very supportive of the cause for their
>> children. Without your contribution and dedication to the Lubang
>> project, this would not be possible at all. Our mission has just
>> begun!
>>
>> I've uploaded some pictures from the launch. You can check it out at
>>
>> http://picasaweb.google.com/jgotangco/EducationKindlingEKindlingOLPCProgramPublicLaunchAtLubang?feat=directlink
>>
>> My public gallery has some photos of past OLPC Philippines Community
>> and Education Kindling events we have participated as well:
>> http://picasaweb.google.com/jgotangco
>>
>> --
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Jerome G.
>> http://www.google.com/profiles/jgotangco
>> http://ph.linkedin.com/in/jeromegotangco
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