Teens Bring Laptops to South African Children

"Two teenage sisters from Boston, along with their family and school, have joined forces with an American non-profit organization to provide laptop computers to underprivileged children in South Africa.

"It was friendship and respect, they say, that motivated 17-year-old high school senior Hannah Weber and her freshman sister Julia, 15, to help members of the Kliptown Youth Programme, near Johannesburg..."

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