Donate Your Get One

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If you want to donate your own laptop, consider joining others in donating to a local school or group where kids can learn together, in a well-supported environment. OLPC encourages individuals to initiate their own regional community groups,

OLPC's grassroots mailing list is a great place to find others who will work with you here.

Some groups are soliciting donated XOs for special projects. Please add your group under the appropriate category.

Places to Donate an XO

For Elementary School Children

Developing Countries

Oaxaca, Mexico

A tiny village in the mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico, San Miguel Cuevas, is looking for donations. The village is an indigenous Mixtec community with contacts living in the United States that visit often, and can take the donations down themselves. For more information please contact Donna Slepack <dslepack@comcast.net>.

La Paz, Bolivia

Bolivian Altiplano kids doing the XO thing (full disclosure: this picture is from a closed private deployment. Ours, community-based, is due to begin teacher training in January)

A group of volunteers have begun work in Bolivia to develop local-based efforts for using OLPC computers, especially among the Aymara nation and other oral-language Native groups. OLE, Inc., a Cambridge-based non-profit is giving organizational support and OLPC, Sugarlabs and other volunteer communities also advise and support.

Contact in the United States is Yama Ploskonka, <yamaplos@gmail.com>. Wiki page for yamaplos is here.

Receipt will be sent to donors. No original packaging required. Computers can be mailed to

BOLIVIA c/o Yama Ploskonka 
1400 Ruth Ave
Austin
Texas, 78757.

North America

• The non-profit collaboration North End Childrens Project is accepting donations of XOs for distribution to elementary school children

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• The pilot program at the Cambridge Friends School in Cambridge, MA is accepting donations for XOs for middle school children. Students from the Boston University School of Management, Harvard University, and Olin College of Engineering are collaborating on a curriculum project during the spring semester. The pilot program will include workshops and activities that integrate the XO into two classrooms. These workshops will serve as an outreach platform for future pilot programs in the Boston community. Please email msigalos@fas.harvard.edu or kfoley@fas.harvard.edu for more information.

Back to OLPC

We thank you for your generous thought of donating back the laptop. It is very kind of you! Please know that if you send it back to OLPC it will not be given back to a child as we can only give children new laptops. The donated XO laptop will be used for testing or other development needs. If you are interested in donating to a child, please choose from one of the options above.

If you have the original packaging, please send in that box, or pack carefully in your own box with recyclable materials like newspaper or corn starch peanuts and mail to this exact address:

One Laptop per Child

ATTN: Give Another

PO Box 425087

Cambridge, MA 02142

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