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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>I am working with about ten schools in rural Ethiopia. can I borrow your comptuer to see if I can use it in the schools?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2><U>Prupose</U></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>Children in Primary schools are taught in their mother tongue. there is no reading material written in the langauge other than text books.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>School communities want to address this problem by encouraging children to write stories. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>My role is to get financial support and technological assistant to this project.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>I will be grateful if I can use your laptop for a day or two.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>is it also possible to come to your London events re OLPC laptops.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>Kind Regards</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>Yours sincerely</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>Tamiru Haile-Selassie</FONT></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV> </DIV>
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