| Slum children go digital in Johannesburg |
| Posted by: Justina Spencer |
| JOHANNESBURG -- With the help of a little green-and-white plastic laptop, two Boston sisters are changing the way a handful of South African slum kids think about their future -- and the world around them. The Kliptown squatter camp, occupying a small corner of Johannesburg’s Soweto, itself synonymous with slum life, boasts little in the way of basic societal needs: It has obsolete infrastructure, no electricity, unsanitary living conditions, and next to no access to new technology. |
| Source: Boston Globe (USA) | Published: July 27th, 2009 |
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