{"id":261,"date":"2008-10-20T05:29:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T10:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stager.tv\/?p=261"},"modified":"2020-07-25T19:38:24","modified_gmt":"2020-07-26T00:38:24","slug":"the-100-laptop-in-vanity-fair-a-colombian-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stager.tv\/?p=261","title":{"rendered":"The $100 Laptop in Vanity Fair &amp; a Colombian School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/\">Vanity Fair<\/a> writer and widow of Tom Russert, Maureen Orth, wrote a charming article about a small school she built in the Colombian Andes while a Peace Corps volunteer in the 1960s. Last week she returned to the school to present the school named for her by the local villagers with 230 <a href=\"http:\/\/laptop.org\/laptop\/\">XO laptops<\/a> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/laptop.org\">One Laptop Per Child Foundation<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/stager.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/dam-online-politics-columbiano.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: hand; width: 200px;\" src=\"http:\/\/stager.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/dam-online-politics-columbiano.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nFrom Orth&#8217;s article, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2008\/10\/maureen-orths-school\">The Long-Term Dividends of Volunteering<\/a><\/span>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Today, seeing how excited the children are about their small, green-and-white computers, which they are allowed to take home every night, is one of the greatest rewards I have ever had. 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