Skills: the right to education

Every child, everywhere, has the right to education.

"Children learn fast. Let's give them the right tools."

Find out more about the One Laptop per Child project at www.laptop.org

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[kyraocity]

Just to be clear, the mission of OLPC is that we in the US buy one laptop and the OLPC folks provide entire schools laptops and each kid gets to take it home, no one left out. Poor = starving in Africa. Most areas are urban but don't have laptops.

As a professor of anthro I find responses like MonoKulen's curious. With a wireless laptop perhaps a whole school in Nigeria, Uraguay or Bangladesh could change their own world without our DEBT.

[OLPCFoundation]

That's right. actually most of the schools we work with are in rural areas; Uruguay is the big exception, and they are going to give one laptop per child & teacher to every primary school in the country. they don't have many very rural areas.

Thanks for the comment.

[isforinsects]

I disagree. The /only/ way to change the world is by education. Giving food and shelter? It has to happen, but it doesn't CHANGE anything.

You feed a child, he is fed.

But if you feed a child, and then teach him to grow his own food? Then he feeds himself.

Education is the answer.

[shehani0nline]

There is 1500+ student in my school and we have one Piii computer.

Still we didnt get a CD rom. any one pls send us a used CD rom.

If you can do it pls send us a email !! We will send your CD rom back to you as soon as possible

shehani0nline@yahoo.com

send me $0.0001 to my paypal account... I already have $0.07 :)

shehani0nline@yahoo.com

[aman111501]

How weird you buy two laptops for

$369 and get 1 while some one else gets the other such a waste you should get both laptops not one the people reciebving the laptops are so lucky they get it for free or $000.00 I have one of those so not use able you can only download apps that special developers make no YouTube or coumputer game on the other hand you can get a normal laptop for that price and the operating system on the Olpc is horrible and the other laptop runs on windows 7 premium

[just0watch0this]

has this foundation ever considered the Philippines? Cause I've never seen anyone playing with these laptops here.

[btheman11]

00.09 is that a child hooker???

[vfgud]

thats what fps games do to you

[buggfire]

strip an indigenous people from their homeland then fill it with electronic waste. savage!

[articlepk]

good for kids

[irishiwasbrian]

you dont have the right to anything but freedom and liberty. Everything else you have to work your ass off for.

[Hosea22]

Therefore computers ranging from a mobile phone to a supercomputer are all able to perform the same computational tasks, given enough time and storage capacity.