Laptop :)

Today I am thankful for my laptop and just plain ol' desktop. I spend a lot of time on computers. I make a living teaching children how to use them, and my favorite hobby is to read blogs and use social media! I also think technology has given us the opportunity to help each other and spread the message of Christ and his love for us.

Today my organization is One Laptop Per Child: OLPC.

Mission:
We aim to provide each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop. To this end, we have designed hardware, content and software for collaborative, joyful, and self-empowered learning. With access to this type of tool, children are engaged in their own education, and learn, share, and create together. They become connected to each other, to the world and to a brighter future.- OLPC

How are they distributed?
The laptops are generally sold to governments and issued to children by schools on a basis of one laptop per child; using this model, we began deployments around the world in 2007. An additional allocation of machines was used to seed the developer community, to enable a broader community of participation, and roughly 80,000 laptops were donated to countries around the world through grassroots donation efforts. As of 2011, over 2 million laptops-  have been distributed under this model.-OLPC





Where are the laptops going?
Over 1.7 million children and teachers in Latin America are currently part of an OLPC project, with another 400,000 in Africa and the rest of the world. Our largest national partners include UruguayPeru  (the first major country in the world to provide every elementary school child with a laptop), (our largest deployment, involving over 8,300 schools), Argentina, Mexico, and Rwanda. Other significant projects have been started in Gaza, Afghanistan, Haiti, Ethiopia, and Mongolia. Every school represent a learning hub, a node in a globally shared resource for learning.-OLPC