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Couple collects laptops for rural African community
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Gil and Karen Gleason want the old laptop you have that's boxed
up in a home office, collecting dust.
They're not going to use it, but people will in the Ugandan
village of Kitojo, where villagers need technological improvements
for health care, education and economic development.
The laptops don't need to be fancy, the Orinda couple said. The
computers just need to be working, running Windows 2000 or XP
operating systems, and contain a copy of Microsoft Office.
The Gleasons and six others, who left for Uganda Feb. 1, said the
donated laptops help the people of Kitojo develop record-keeping ...
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