One Laptop per Child (OLPC), a non-profit organization whose mission is to help provide every child in the world access to a modern education, today announced a program, OLPC for Haiti, to send unused XO laptops to the children of Haiti.
Anyone with an unused XO laptop can give it to a displaced student in Haiti by shipping their laptop to:
OLPC for Haiti, c/o Excel
615 Westport Parkway #500
Grapevine,
TX 76051
Even broken laptops can be returned, as they can be recycled for much-needed spare parts. OLPC will send an extra shipment of XO's to Haiti this year and 2010 OLPCorps field volunteers in Haiti will help distribute them as part of the rebuilding around Port-au-Prince. Non-OLPC laptops and desktop computers are not part of the program. For more details, visit http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_for_Haiti.
"75 percent of the schools in Port-au-Prince have been destroyed in the recent earthquake, but by good fortune, none of our Haitian team was hurt," said Nicholas Negroponte, founder and chairman of One Laptop per Child. "OLPC technical staff and teachers are prepared to work with the government and NGOs to deploy XOs to children who now have no school to go to. Because of the XO's unique features (sunlight readability, solar powered, water resistant, drop proof), it is an ideal tool for relief work."
About One Laptop per Child
One Laptop per Child (OLPC at http://www.laptop.org) is a non-profit organization created by Nicholas Negroponte and others from the MIT Media Lab to design, manufacture and distribute laptop computers that are inexpensive enough to provide every child in the world access to knowledge and modern forms of education.
Contacts:
One Laptop per Child
Jackie Lustig, 781-487-4664
or
Kyle
Austin, 781-487-4603
press@racepointgroup.com