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== Details ==
== Details ==


Our warehouse is helping us keep costs low for storing these laptops. We have had a few offers of free shipping for small packets.
Our warehouse is helping us keep costs low for storing these laptops. We've received an offer of free shipping to Haiti, but would appreciate similar offers -- please contact volunteer@laptop.org


Q: Can I use the Post Office or Fedex, etc?<br />
Q: Can I use the Post Office or Fedex, etc?<br />
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Q: Is the original cardboard box required?<br />
Q: Is the original cardboard box required?<br />
::A: No! XO Laptops are quite tough. Whichever cardboard box you ouse, we'd just ask you to provide basic protective packaging around your XO Laptop, charger and battery.
::A: No! XO Laptops are quite tough. Whichever cardboard box you use, we'd just ask you to provide basic protective packaging around your XO Laptop, charger and battery.

Q: Which kids will receive my laptop in Hait?<br />
::A: This has not been finalized, however we're working hard in the coming months to make arrangements involving OLPCorps and hopefully the existing Haiti communities participating in the Inter-American Development Bank project sending 13,700 XOs to the Haitian students and teachers in 60 schools.

Revision as of 18:11, 20 January 2010

Give your XO to displaced students in Haiti. We are sending a shipment of XOs to Haiti later this year, where the 2010 OLPCorps field volunteers will help distribute them as part of their rebuilding work around Port-au-Prince.

Address

OLPC FOR HAITI c/o Exel
615 Westport Parkway #500
Grapevine, TX  76051
USA

Details

Our warehouse is helping us keep costs low for storing these laptops. We've received an offer of free shipping to Haiti, but would appreciate similar offers -- please contact volunteer@laptop.org

Q: Can I use the Post Office or Fedex, etc?

A: Yes, all carriers/shippers can be used, to the Texas address below.

Q: Is the original cardboard box required?

A: No! XO Laptops are quite tough. Whichever cardboard box you use, we'd just ask you to provide basic protective packaging around your XO Laptop, charger and battery.

Q: Which kids will receive my laptop in Hait?

A: This has not been finalized, however we're working hard in the coming months to make arrangements involving OLPCorps and hopefully the existing Haiti communities participating in the Inter-American Development Bank project sending 13,700 XOs to the Haitian students and teachers in 60 schools.