Currently there are hundreds of thousands of XO's in over 30 countries from Peru to Rwanda, and everywhere it goes, the results are the same. The laptops help children build on their active interest in the world around them and to engage with powerful ideas. With the XO, kids actually learn how to learn by exploring and sharing. The children learn and teach each other, their teachers and their parents.
Why give a laptop to a child who has no running water? If you replace the word "laptop" with "education" the answer becomes clear. You don't wait to educate until all other challenges are resolved. You educate at the same time because it's such an important part of all other solutions.
By Giving One you are helping to put an XO in the hands of another child. Most of the nearly two billion children in the developing world are inadequately educated, or receive no education at all. Children are consigned to poverty and isolation--just like their parents--never knowing what the light of learning could mean in their lives. The tool with which to unlock their enormous potential is the XO laptop. The XO is an impactful learning tool designed and built especially for children in developing countries, living in some of the most remote environments on Earth. As such, it has several features you won't find on any other laptop.
For starters, it's about the size of a small textbook and made with a rugged plastic exterior. It has built-in wireless and a unique screen that works in full color or black and white to make it readable under direct sunlight. And finally it's ultra-low power using only about 4 watts (most laptops use about 40 watts). This means, when there's no electricity, it can be recharged with alternate power sources like solar power.
By giving a laptop, you are helping bring education to children in some of the world's most remote areas. You are connecting them to each other. To us. To hope. And to a better future.
For more videos and information about the program and the children of the One Laptop Per Child Foundation, visit YouTube
For more about the project explore the link above or visit laptop.org.
OLPC is committed to improving the quality of education for as many children as possible. The cost of sending and setting-up laptops in some of the most remote and isolated parts of the world is costly and often difficult to predict. Your contribution may advance the mission in vital ways beyond simply supporting the donation of a laptop.
One Laptop per Child XO Laptop (Give a Laptop, Get a Laptop)
