Struggling single mother would be ideal candidate for laptop but…

Mortlyn Benjamin and her children

A single-mother with six school-aged children and earning less than $50,000 a month, Mortlyn Benjamin and her family may be ideal candidates to benefit from the government’s One Laptop Per Family (OLPF) initiative.

However, it is not clear if her family and the many others who may also qualify in Port Kaituma will benefit. Before speaking to Stabroek News, Henry had never heard of the OLPF programme. “Is the first time I hearing about it but if the government