Peru put aside 2million dollars for laptops for school children. The question asked is has their efforts really helped? A small village by the name of Lacachi is wondering. They haven't had any of the benefits probably because it is very tedious to get to the village. This village is way behind times, they just got electricity two years ago and are getting running water in a year. Except they still don't really have laptops. They have these basic laptops that a very strange looking and those laptops are breaking or need soft wear updates. The teacher puts them in groups to work on the computers using a special program since they don't have Internet. the computers are really bad, "The screen has a line down the middle, and on one side it's just black. On the other side it's fine, but on one side you can't see anything," the student says." They also were supposed to send a computer repair man to fix these computers in rural parts of Peru, but that has yet to happen.
I think its good that Peru set aside money for the laptops, but I think they need to make more of an effort for the rural parts of Peru. They need the computers just as much and I think someone should do something.
http://www.npr.org/2012/10/13/162719126/one-child-one-laptop-and-mixed-results-in-peru
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