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		atonse on March 4, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Teacher in Ghana has no computers so he draws Micr... Yes. This isn’t about open source idealism. You are teaching them job skills. MS Word is a useful job skill.

erAck on March 4, 2018 [–]

Understanding how to use any word processor is a job skill. LibreOffice supports Akan, an official language spoken in Ghana. Projects could translate the UI to Akan so even more people would be able to use it.

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