In a Facebook post today, Mark Zuckerberg pledged $1.5 million in aid to organizations assisting in Puerto Rico’s recovery from Hurricane Maria, together with direct assistance from Facebook’s connectivity team to help the country get back online. The hurricane left 80 percent of the island without power, and citizens have faced intense shortages of food, fuel, and drinking water in the seven days since landfall. A FEMA briefing on Tuesday reported that only 11 of the islands 69 hospitals had power.
The $1.5 million donation is split between the World Food Programme, an anti-hunger organization, and NetHope, a consortium of non-profits that works to improve connectivity in undeveloped or disaster-stricken areas. Zuckerberg asked...
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https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/27/16376436/facebook-puerto-rico-relief-internet-mark-zuckerberg
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http://ifeeltechinc.blogspot.com/2017/09/facebook-is-sending-its-connectivity.html
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