Ditto! This is very exciting work.
Gerald On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 10:40 AM, K Villa <krvi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Congratulations are in order to you and everyone that put this all together > and to the community that opened its mind and placed its trust to each and > every effort so selflessly given. > > Kudos. > > /Karissa Villa > > On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 10:20 PM, jgotan...@gmail.com > <jgotan...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Now it can be told - that the Philippines is now officially in the >> list of countries that have deployed the OLPC program to a school. >> Education Kindling has announced the launch of the OLPC program pilot >> in Lubang, Occ. Mindoro today and was attended by Dep Ed secretary >> Bro. Armin Luistro, FSC. >> >> I have been doing OLPC advocacy since 2008 and this resulted to >> Education Kindling with some members of this mailing list. Seeing 95 >> kids now at the close of 2010 with OLPC XO-1.5 laptops in Lubang is a >> dream come true for many of us here. Thank you Meg Simpson, Susan >> Abaya and the members of the NCC alumni (I have lost count but you >> know who you are) for making this happen, along with Mayor Sanchez and >> the local government of Lubang. Kudos as well to the teachers involved >> and the parents who have been very supportive of the cause for their >> children. Without your contribution and dedication to the Lubang >> project, this would not be possible at all. Our mission has just >> begun! >> >> I've uploaded some pictures from the launch. You can check it out at >> >> http://picasaweb.google.com/jgotangco/EducationKindlingEKindlingOLPCProgramPublicLaunchAtLubang?feat=directlink >> >> My public gallery has some photos of past OLPC Philippines Community >> and Education Kindling events we have participated as well: >> http://picasaweb.google.com/jgotangco >> >> -- >> Cheers, >> >> Jerome G. >> http://www.google.com/profiles/jgotangco >> http://ph.linkedin.com/in/jeromegotangco >> _______________________________________________ >> OLPC-Philippines mailing list >> OLPC-Philippines@lists.laptop.org >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-philippines >> > > > > -- > ======================= > » design communicates / www.east-axis.com « > *If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be > patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.* > **» krvilla.blogspot.com » > Bookshelf<http://www.librarything.com/profile/krvilla> > » ideography.wordpress.com » My Posterous <http://krvilla.posterous.com> > » Pics on Flickr <http://flickr.com/photos/kaffee> » > Twitter<http://twitter.com/kaffee> > > > _______________________________________________ > OLPC-Philippines mailing list > OLPC-Philippines@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-philippines > >
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