It's hard not to be judgemental, at the surface it does not appear to make sense. However, for some, opportunities are limited and by providing training or equipment it enables those people with the right motivation to do something. For those people, I think that they are worth investing in, and should get all the support they can from the State etc
My concern is that the motivation for some is not to find work, and the support from the State actually means that it is better for them to not actually work!
Finding employment, especially currently is difficult, and I hope that initiatives like this help. However there are systemic failures in the country that a few laptops cannot address