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Freedom Rings: stimulus-funded computer lab opens in homeless facility [AUDIO]

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Photo: VOA - M. Petrillo

An update on the Freedom Rings partnership and the stimulus-funded, planned 48 mobile broadband centers, which have opened elsewhere, comes from Voice of America, including an audio report:

Lonnette currently lives with her mother at the People’s Emergency Center in Philadelphia. It serves as a transitional residence for homeless single women and their children. The dozens of families it serves had no in-house computer access until last week, when the city opened a computer lab in the center.

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