Hum. Is Linux an option for you? For the old computer.

Nope :( It's my dad's laptop and he uses it for work-related matters every once in a while. My slower laptop does have Linux, but it's unusable. It gets stuck all the time. I'm thinking of getting a USB and installing Arch Linux in it to boot other computers with it. It would be light, but I don't know if it would be fast enough given the limitation of USB data transfer or if I would be putting even further limits on my resources.

Do they have any sort of tech training programs?

What I said was more in the line of people don't have money to buy computers. Many do know how to use them but don't have access to them. I have a friend who lives in another city who used to work in marketing, but now doesn't have a computer or even a smartphone, so she just takes simple low-wage jobs unrelated to technology.

I don't know if tech training programs could work. There are companies that provide the technological resources needed for the job, but they are decreasingly common every day. This is not due to the unavailability of people with technological knowledge but the lack of resources that makes investors leave the country.