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Over 450 East Coast residents benefit from OLPF

November 30, 2013, by Editor, GINA Georgetown, Source

Despite the heavy rainfall on Wednesday, residents of Buxton and surrounding communities gathered in large numbers at the Tipperary Hall, in Buxton to receive their laptops as the One Laptop Per Family (OLPF) programme continued distribution in Region Four.

More than four hundred and fifty (450) beneficiaries from Vigilance, Friendship, Buxton, Annandale and Courbane Park received their laptops.

Minister within the Ministry of Finance, Juan Edghill

handing over a laptop to a beneficiary of the One

Laptop Per Family (OLPF) programme at Tipperary

Hall in Buxton

Minister within the Ministry of Finance, Juan Edghill who was present at the exercise, highlighted that this initiative is for Guyanese and that the programme is designed in such a way that “it is non discriminatory, everybody that qualifies will benefit…this is for every person who qualifies and that is the nature of the PPP/C government.”

A five-day training session is also being offered to the recipients to ensure they are able to use the device.

Proud beneficiaries displaying their new laptops

Beneficiaries of this initiative expressed their gratitude to the government for this programme. One recipient, May Glenn said that this initiative is a very good one; and it will prove very beneficial to the children, who are tomorrow’s future, while Evelyn Adams said that she was happy that the government was giving out laptops, and hers will aid her grandchildren in their school work.

The current exercise is a continuation of the distribution that commenced in May, and primarily targets Region Four-Demerara/Mahaica. This initiative is focused on the distribution of 6,000 laptops to recipients of the East Coast, East Bank and Georgetown areas.

A section of the gathering at the distribution exercise

at the Tipperary Hall, Buxton

The OLPF programme was originally launched in 2011, to equip 90,000 families with laptops and to expand the use of Information Communication Technology (ICT). The programme was pioneered by former President Bharrat Jagdeo.