Representatives of the Camões Institute have been at the Portuguese Consulate in New Bedford, Massachusetts, handing out hundreds of new Microsoft Surface Go 3 tablets to students and teachers from local community schools that teach Portuguese, courtesy of the Portuguese government. In all, about 1,900 tablets with access to digital learning content are expected to be distributed by September among students and teachers of dozens of community schools scattered across the United States as part of the project “Digitalization of Portuguese Teaching Abroad,” representing an investment of about €1.2 million euros by the Portuguese government just in the US, reports the US ‘O Jornal’, quoting Rui Vaz, Camões Institute director of language services, saying in all the government is investing €18 million in promoting the Portuguese language and culture abroad.
