Educating the world One Laptop Per Child

2 billion children in the world are poorly educated. In third world countries 1 in three children does not complete the fifth grade. In these countries the governments can only spend $20 dollars a year for educating their young.

One Laptop Per Child, a non-profit organization, is trying to fix that problem. Because these countries are so poor, even if enough money was donated to double what they spend on educating a child, not a lot of change would happen. Nicholas Negroponte, director of the MIT Media Labratory, dreamed the unthinkable and made it happen.

The answer? The XO. The XO is a computer meant to teach kids how to learn. It is much more than that though. Through this computer children in the poorest parts of the world get connected. Because of advanced technologies these children not only receive a better education they learn that there is hope outside of the place they live.

OLPC started as an idea. Because of micro-processing, better power consumption on portable computers and generous people, it became a reality. Because of a promotion, Give One Get One, that OLPC ran from Nov 12, 2007 through Dec 31, 2007, OLPC raised 35 million dollars and was able to distribute 100,000 XO laptops to Afghanistan, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Haiti, Mongolia and Rwanda.

For more information check out One Lap Top Per Child.