1,000 computers shared out

Senior citizen Eileen Rowe, who has been following the OLPF project since its launching, is embraced by President Bharrat Jagdeo (third from left) as she receives her netbook from CEO of the project Sesh Sukhdeo yesterday. Also in photo are Prime Minister Sam Hinds (second from right) and PPP/C presidential candidate Donald Ramotar. (Anjuli Persaud photo)

Some 1,000 families from across the country yesterday received computers as the initial distribution began under government’s One Laptop Per Family (OLPF) project.

The allotment, part of the 5,000 netbooks which arrived in the country recently, was distributed to a select group of persons