Awesome!!!! Congrats - Greg
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 6:20 AM, 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 > -- http://gregmoreno.ca http://twitter.com/gregmoreno http://github.com/gregmoreno http://pinoyrb.org _______________________________________________ OLPC-Philippines mailing list OLPC-Philippines@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-philippines