Looking to laptops to lead Doomadgee children out of poverty |
Posted by: Susan Einhorn |
A SMILE stretches wide across six-year-old Jeremiah Johnson's face as he grasps the neon-green and white laptop and races around his classroom, taking snapshots of his mates. "They're great. (You can) take pictures, do paintings and do games," he says, beaming. Outside Jeremiah's classroom, the mid-morning sun pounds down on the dust of Doomadgee, an Aboriginal community, home to just over 1000 people, inland from the Gulf of Carpentaria in far northwest Queensland. |
Source: The Australian (Australia) | Published: September 17th, 2010 |
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