OLPC Haiti/Background

OLPC's work in Haiti

Deployments: 13,700 XOs have been purchased for use by students and teachers in Haiti, including 10,000 laptops from the Give One Get One program. In addition, hundreds more have been deployed in smaller pilots by independent NGOs.

Waveplace: Waveplace is a non-profit organization that raises money to purchase XOs for Caribbean children, creates trainign materials that teach digital media skills, and inspires teachers to use computers in new ways. From February to September of 2008, Waveplace donated 23 XOs to students from the Mercy & Sharing John Branchizio School in Port au Prince, Haiti. Waveplace also provides XO and Etoys training. Following the January 2010 earthquake, Waveplace returned to Haiti in March to organize a two week workshop at Matènwa Community Learning Center for 20 trainee mentors and 26 children. The workshop aimed to train mentors who can each train an additional twenty mentors to lead eight Waveplace pilot projects using XO laptops and Squeak Etoys. OLPC also redonated 200 laptops being used by 40 mentors and 160 children in Haiti.

Check out the Wave place Haiti blog entries and their OLPC wiki page [1]

Other Resources

Haiti Education Resources

• Wikipedia Page on Education in Haiti
• Interesting article from the Council on Foreign Relations

OLPC in Haiti

• OLPC Haiti wiki page
• OLPC Haiti website (still under construction)
• Feedback from the Haitian XO Deployment