Talk:Manus Regional Processing Centre

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Anybody knows if there are any kids there?

I'm from the olpc community - Refugee Camps cell. Our thesis is that, in case refugee camps are expected to last more than 6 months, olpc deployments - giving every kid/youngster a PV powered olpc laptop-tablet school with some 500 eBooks - with a.o. their schoolbooks, books on how to make soap, composting toilets, aquaponics, guerrilla gardening, rope-pumps, clay-pot water-filters, etc. - would make a lot of sense: the refugee camps are a confined area, all kids get an olpc laptop, so there is no need to steel one from another kid. Kids take them to their families/shelter, where probably there are people who can help in teaching when they see there are teaching/exercise books on them. Kids don't loose a whole year or years of school. Kids are known to bring about transformational change in families: many of us have learned about smart phones via our kids. Here too: kids take the laptops with them to their families / in their tents and there is a spill over effect to the others: others get introduced into what computers are, see other books that might offer helpful tools for surviving in a refugee camp - making a clay-pot water filter, aquaponics, composting toilet, etc. The laptops can communicate with one another. If there is a wifi server deployed, the whole refugee camp can communicate with one another and get access to the wikipedia that can be stored on the hard drive of the server in several languages. More books, games etc. can be served as well. The XO laptop is at 25 euro/laptop.child.year, including the PV panel. Thank you --SvenAERTS (talk) 08:29, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

Strangely ethereal suggestion; possibly a troll? The organization he cites appears to be a commercial venture disguised as a charity, but it's hard to believe they would profit from this Onion-like paragraph. Read the Guardian coverage of the Manus Island camp and you won't be talking about iPads, but about human rights abuses. See https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/jun/20/the-worst-ive-seen-trauma-expert-lifts-lid-on-atrocity-of-australias-detention-regime and several articles referred to therein.

178.39.122.125 (talk) 12:16, 21 June 2016 (UTC)

Confusing timeline

The article states the "On 23 November 2017, all remaining men at the centre were moved to new accommodation." The very next sentence reads "In February 2019, a home affairs spokesman said that there were 422 people housed at the three camps – 213 at East Lorengau, 111 at West Lorengau and 98 asylum seekers at Hillside Haus."

Are these facilities part of the Centre? If so, this timeline is very confusing. If not, it should be clarified that these are separate facilities. -RunningOnBrains^(talk) 00:14, 20 February 2020 (UTC)

Hi Runningonbrains. The Numbers section (from which you have quoted) is a separate section - the timeline above explains the series of events in more detail. The camps referred to are not part of the detention centre, but three different residential locations. Feel free to edit to clarify further if you like! Laterthanyouthink (talk) 04:40, 20 February 2020 (UTC)