Applications for laptop programme available from today

The One Laptop Per Family (OLPF) programme has moved to a “critical phase” with application forms for the much-vaunted project available from today.

In this phase, the Project Unit will aggressively interact with the public, a press release on the project said. It said that the Regional Democratic Councils (RDCs) and the general offices of the Neighbourhood Democratic Councils (NDCs) in Regions Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven (Bartica only) and Ten will make the forms and accompanying pre-paid, pre-addressed envelopes available to the public from today.

The release said that while every Guyanese could access the document, the eligibility criteria for the first phase (2011) caters for single parents, the differently-abled and other persons who are considered members of