Beneficiaries can now take laptops home

Beneficiaries of the laptops and their parents at the Lodge Community Development Centre. (GINA photo)

Almost six months after the much-vaunted One Laptop Per Family (OLPF) initiative was launched the first 142 persons identified to benefit from the project are now being allowed to take the computers home.

Minister Manzoor Nadir, who has ministerial oversight for the project, told Stabroek News yesterday that the project is moving into