OLPC:Outreach/OLPCorps

OLPCorps RfS

Dear friends,

Starting this Spring, we started the OLPCorps program to stimulate grassroots laptop
deployments in Africa.  We solicited proposals from student teams around the world 
interested in carrying out a small OLPC deployment in Africa.  Teams were required to 
have a relationship with a local NGO that plans to support their work in the future.   
[link to CfP]

30 of the teams were selected to receive 100 laptops and reimbursement of up to $10,000 
of expenses.  The program is being run out of the OLPC center in Kigali, Rwanda this 
summer.  Representatives from every team and from a number of countries are attending a 
ten-day learning and deployment workshop in the Kigali OLPC center during the first week 
of June.  [link to project list, blog post]

This is another step towards realizing our vision of improving access to connected 
laptops for students in the least developed parts of the world.  [This year the program 
was made possible with generous support from <sponsors>, but] we need your support to 
help this project expand in future years.  Please help us build on these efforts with a 
donation. <link to donate>  

And help us build our local networks -- spread the word to people you know interested in 
the 17 countries deploying XOs! <link to this notice>

Sincerely,

<signed>
for the OLPCorps team