Fremont Housing Agency Accepts Gift of Laptops from Google.org

FREMONT, CA — With a $500,000 donation from Google.org, a Fremont-based agency is planning to give computers to 1,200 formerly homeless individuals who are getting settled into new homes. Fremont-based Adobe Services announced the donation on Thursday.

"We're thrilled and grateful to Google.org for recognizing our efforts to end homelessness and the role that technology can play in fulfilling that mission," Adobe Services executive director Louis Chicoine
said in a statement. "Silicon Valley has helped make this one of the world's most prosperous regions, and this generous gift will help participants in our programs gain access to the technology that's so vital to modern life."

Officials at Adobe Services believe that affordable housing is a right. Chicoine said the programs at Adobe are designed to help people become as independent as possible so technology is necessary to the service
Adobe provides.

"We thank Google.org for its visionary approach and bold leadership," Chicoine said.

By Bay City News

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