<div dir="ltr">On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 8:12 PM, William Stelzer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wtstelzer@att.net" target="_blank">wtstelzer@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
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<div><span>Awesome post Sora!!</span></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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 :-)<br>
<br>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:<br>
<br>   <a href="http://idbdocs.iadb.org/wsdocs/getdocument.aspx?docnum=1364380">http://idbdocs.iadb.org/wsdocs/getdocument.aspx?docnum=1364380</a><br></div><div>   <a href="http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-haiti/">http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-haiti/</a><br>
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 <div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:12pt"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1">  <font face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">From:</span></b> Adam Holt <<a href="mailto:holt@laptop.org" target="_blank">holt@laptop.org</a>><br>
 <b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> Unleash Kids! <<a href="mailto:unleashkids@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">unleashkids@googlegroups.com</a>>; server-devel <<a href="mailto:server-devel@lists.laptop.org" target="_blank">server-devel@lists.laptop.org</a>>; Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond to help AT <a href="http://laptop.org" target="_blank">laptop.org</a> <<a href="mailto:support-gang@lists.laptop.org" target="_blank">support-gang@lists.laptop.org</a>> <br>
 <b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Friday, July 11, 2014
 12:38 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [support-gang] How did 262 "abandoned" Haiti XOs cross the road?<br> </font> </div> <div><div><div class="h5"><br><div><div><div dir="ltr">
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 12:35 AM, Adam Holt <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" href="mailto:holt@laptop.org" target="_blank">holt@laptop.org</a>></span> wrote:<br clear="none"><div><div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">

<div dir="ltr"><div><div>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:<br clear="none"></div></div></div></blockquote>
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LINK FIXED:<br clear="none"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" href="http://projectrive.wordpress.com/2014/07/11/special-report-thomazeau/" target="_blank">http://projectrive.wordpress.com/2014/07/11/special-report-thomazeau/</a><div>
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<div dir="ltr"><div><div>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.  <i>Barely more than an hour from Disney World,</i> 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!<br clear="none">

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<br clear="none">You Make The Choice.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">We chose learning together, face-to-face.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">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.<br clear="none">


<br clear="none">While none of the team's work above would have been possible without our best friends the armchair humanitarians/engineers <b>paying it forward</b> like George Hunt, Tim Moody, James Cameron, Bill Stelzer, Curt Thompson, Nancie Severs, Paul Fox, Richard Smith, Nick Doiron etc ;-)<br clear="none">


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