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.

Up to date information on donated computers for our project is in the Bolivia OLE page.

Contact in the United States is Yama Ploskonka, <yamaplos@gmail.com>. Wiki page for Bolivia is here and for for Yamaplos is here. A link to what we have already done to translate Sugar to Aymara is here.

Receipt will be sent to donors, though a tax-related receipt will take several weeks as it is processed outside of our control. No original packaging required. Computers can be mailed to

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

We want your computer to be used initially for two weeks of teacher training by the end of January 2009, then it will be handed to a Bolivian child that will be tutored by one of the trained teachers.
We will contact you with (first) name and picture of the child you have donated to, using standard procedures for sharing this kind of information.

The Caribbean

Children in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, with their Waveplace XOs

Waveplace is a non-profit that donates laptops to Caribbean children, creates training materials that teach digital media skills, and inspires teachers to use computers in new ways. We've given more than 100 laptops to children in Haiti, Nicaragua, Immokalee, and the Virgin Islands. New pilots in each of these locations are planned for 2009, as well as possible pilots in St Vincent, Jamaica, Belize, and the Dominican Republic. All who donate a laptop will receive a photo of the child who receives it.

To see Waveplace in action, watch our videos 2 3 or listen to the NPR story on us. You can also watch our 2008 Waveplace Awards show.

Please contact us through our website or send to the address below. We can use all the help we can get!

Waveplace Foundation
1838 Alder Lane
Bethlehem PA 18015

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.

For Computer Science Education

Secondary School Learning Projects

• please add your secondary school learning project here to be the recipient of donated laptops directly from donors!

College Learning Projects

• please add your college learning project here to be the recipient of donated laptops directly from donors!

Other suggestions for donating to a child in need

You may want to consider donating your XO laptop to a homeless shelter or halfway home in your own community! There are usually children at these types of housing, especially housing for battered women, who could use the educational time away from their family affairs. Do a google search for local groups that are of interest to you!

OLPC Community

Local OLPC community groups could use donated computers for local projects, and might be able to follow up with users that get a donation, helping them get the most benefit from a donated XO.

• USA OLPC_United_States#User_groups_and_unoffical_groups
• International Regional_groups

You may also want to visit this page.