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</imagemap>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. Cities are strongly encouraged to initiate their own regional community groups.
OLPC's grassroots mailing list is another great place to find others who will work with you here -- or write to: volunteer @ laptop.org
Some groups are soliciting donated XOs for special projects. Please add your group under the appropriate category, and also add your project to our larger "Science Fair" bazaar/showcase.
For elementary school children
Africa
Zambia, Southern Africa
The Lubuto Library Project (http://www.lubuto.org/) builds beautiful, indigenously-styled open-access libraries that serve street children and other vulnerable and out-of-school children in sub-Saharan African countries, starting in Zambia. The libraries, owned and run by Zambians, offer a wide array of programs, including mentoring and use of OLPC XO laptops, that provide the children with a bridge to schools and social services that are beyond the reach of vast numbers of them.
We successfully introduced 10 XO’s at the first Lubuto Library, in Lusaka, Zambia, in February, 2009, and they have been in almost constant use ever since: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdwYI9w5BGc We are now completing our second library, in another part of Lusaka where there are many street children needing services, and we would like to provide as many of the XO laptops as we can get. The former street children who work with our libraries are adept in training, and we can assure you that the laptops will be heavily used and appreciated for as long as they last by some of the most vulnerable children on the planet.
Your donation of a laptop is tax-deductible and we will immediately send a receipt with our thanks. Please send laptops to: Lubuto Library Project, Inc. 5505 Connecticut Ave., NW, #368 Washington, DC 20015
São Tomé e Príncipe
In the summer of 2009, the São João Middle School in São Tomé e Príncipe received 100 laptops through OLPC and began giving computer classes to its 6th grade students. The class took off with a bang, igniting interest not only within the classroom but across the entire country. It also nearly instantly began to develop the problem solving, creativity and research skills of 100 very bright and disadvantaged children.
Unfortunately, there are still 500 students in the 6th grade lacking computers. This severe lack makes it absolutely impossible for students to use their computers in they way they were intended- during the school day. Students are currently meeting every Saturday morning to participate in extra computer classes until we can gather enough to include the rest of the 6th grade. Please consider donating your used and previously loved XO laptop in order to help us attain enough computers and make our program a success.
Please email Beth at beth@bethsantos.com for more information or visit our blog at http://bethstepsup.blogspot.com. You can also find pictures and class summaries up on our blog, as well as more information about the São João School and São Tomé e Príncipe. Laptops may be sent directly to 1334 1/2 L St. SE, Washington, DC 20003. Donations are tax-deductible.
Kenya, East Africa
The Community Alliance Network (CAN) is an NGO working in Kenya. Having sponsored four teachers at a rural school to take computer literacy courses, we are looking to supply the class with enough computers to run a computer literacy class. As these would remain at the school, your donation would help many generations of high school students to gain access to skills which are empowering and will grow ever more so in the 21st century. For information, contact santiagopm88@gmail.com
Western Kenya Kericho District Project
- The Hands of Charity teams are working with schools in Kericho and Bungoma to develop curriculum based on the Kenyan State Syllabus. These schools lack basic resources. The HOC teams have been working since August and are now in the schools working with students. They are teaching an HIV/AIDS curriculum, primary reading and writing and a mathematics curriculum. Please visit their blog at http://hoclaptop.blog.com HOC Project Blog
- Small Solutions based in Newburyport, Massachusetts is partnering with HOC and assisting by fundraising for the outreach and support of these teams. To donate a laptop to children in the school Keongo Primary School please email sandra@smallsolutionsbigideas.org or visit our website www.smallsolutionsbigideas.org SmallSolutions Big Ideas. Your donation is tax deductible.
Tanzania, Arusha
- Consider donating a laptop that will go directly to an orphan identified as as a child that will benefit the most from your donation.
- The Reconciliation Ministry based in Arusha supports orphanages in the countryside around Arusha and up on Mr. Meru. Small Solutions based in Newburyport, Massachusetts has partnered with the 'Reconciliation Ministry' and visited their orphanages last summer to identify projects for the XO.
- To donate a laptop to one of the more than 300 orphans in 3 orphan centers around Arusha or to donate to orphanages in Moshi please email sandra@smallsolutionsbigideas.org or go to www.smallsolutionsbigideas.org [3]. Your donation is tax deductible.
Ghana, West Africa
Ghana Together is a 501c3 working with our Ghanaian partner, Western Heritage Home (WHH) in Axim, Ghana. WHH is Ghanaian registered, and run entirely by local leaders---the only local NGO in the town of about 25,000.
In January '09 we put out a plea and now have 32 GiveOne/GetOne donated OLPCs deployed in the Children's Home (orphanage) run by WHH, with five more promised. Each resident child has his/her own, and the rest are used by neighborhood children in after-school and Saturday classes. WHH has hired Maxwell Quarm to oversee the OLPC goings-on and also to serve as instructor/technican in the vocational computing lab for older chidren and adults that WHH has launched as of Sept '09.
Because Axim is a town of about 25,000, we can't just give the those few out to the neighborhood kids, so they come up to the Children's Home for classes. A bonus is a decrease in isolation for the orphaned children who live there and now have something wonderful to share with their school friends!
We are proud that we have introduced OLPCs into the Western Region of Ghana, especially the Nzema East District. The older kids in the Home are now very skilled and have been able to "teach" visiting educationists and other leaders---a wonderful opportunity for them and a chance for local Ghanaians to see for themselves what OLPCs are all about. We invite Ghanaians who may be reading this to go to Axim and see for themselves!
These are the children and Axim is the environment for whom the OLPC was designed--hot, humid, difficult rainy season, bright sunlight, teacher+blackboard education, few books, few learning resources, isolated, very poor economically...BUT a democracy, strong desire to improve education, reasonably stable society, strong cultural traditions, acceptance of computer technology. I myself introduced the OLPCs to the WHH Board members there, with a solid day of training, and they in turn introduced them to the children in their care. I can vouch that after about six months, the children still use them every day in more ways than can be imagined! Their lives are changed forever for the better.
WE ARE LOOKING FOR MORE DONATED OLPCs. If you have "outgrown" yours, and it is in working condition, with power cord and preferably battery, consider donating it to us (as a bonus, it's a tax deductible charitable contribution). I'm going to Ghana in January and will personally make sure your machine is being used responsibly for real children! We do a clean rebuild and WHH has an inventory system to prevent theft. Maxwell and staff keep a close eye on comings and goings of all things computing at WHH.
To see some photos, go to: http://picasaweb.google.com/ghanatogether/GhanaTogetherBringsOLPCsToWHHChildrenSHomeInAximGhana02#
Thanks a lot! Please contact me if you'd like to discuss: Maryanne Ward, President Ghana Together, Ward.Maryanne@verizon.net (http://ghanatogether.org).
NACIF, Ghana
The Needy African Child Foundation is a non-profit organization in Ghana with a focus on facilitating the education of girls. NACIF’s work is based on the age-old philosophy, “Educate a girl to educate a nation.” To this end, it tries to be an educational resource for female students and drop-outs in Ghana.
The original goal of this particular project was to provide young female students (ages 8-16) who had to drop out of school because of lack of funds, unintended pregnancies, etc, with books that will enable them to further their education and make a living. However, the cost of shipping books for the project proved to be prohibitively expensive. NACIF believes e-books and e-learning websites are a cost-effective solution to the problem. In addition, NACIF realizes that these girls need computer skills to be competitive in today’s employment market.
NACIF’s plan is to have a computer resource person work with the girls in the program to define projects for which they can borrow an OLPC. The girls will be able to research their project using resources such as Wikipedia, OER and MIT OCW. They will also be encouraged to document their project to a Wiki, thereby making it possible for future participants in the program to benefit from a knowledge base. Although, it is hoped that the girls will benefit from the joy of having access to the world’s knowledge through the OLPC, a major metric of success will be the extent to which they can use this device to acquire employable skills.
Dadaab, Kenya refugee camp
Dadaab, Kenya, is home to over 160,000 refugees mostly from Somalia. The camps are the site of a growing humanitarian crisis — first from a sharp increase in the number of new refugees arriving from Somalia, and most recently from disastrous flooding in the area. With all other problems that these refugees face, the eduction for the children is minimal. We appealing for support for these refugee kids to benefit from such things as XO computers. Please contact me at ahmedafarah@gmail.com to the work together to help even a few number of these kids to have a better day.
Asia
Philippines
eKindling.org, which is short for Education Kindling,is the result of our collaborative attempt to formalize an organization in the eKindling that will allow us to further our common mission and vision as a community. Simply said, this is an education project.
Having been conceived through the "OLPC process," eKindling is supportive of current XO-related initiatives. Projects, partnerships and volunteer efforts will continue to be encouraged.
Please contact Ryan Letada <rletada@ekindling.org>
Vietnam/Ha Long Bay
Please Consider Donating Your Laptop To The Vung Vieng Fishing Village Laptop Project [4]
VVV Children With First Vietnam XOs <gallery>
Floating Village Children Rowing Home From School <gallery>
VVV Children in Class With XOs <gallery>
Vung Vieng Village Vietnam School
Last February, 2009, while traveling in Southeast Asia, I came upon a most remarkable site for deployment of an OLPC Laptop Project. I visited the Vung Vieng Fishing Village located in Bai Tu Long Bay, Ha Long Bay, Vietnam. This is a floating village in a most spectacular geographic environment, part of the Ha Long Bay UNESCO World Heritage Site.I proposed a project for the VVV village schoolchildren to OLPC. Through the generosity of the Contributors Program, On October 29, 2009, I delivered the first laptops to the VVV. This is the first OLPC project in Vietnam! We are working hard to provide One Laptop Per Child for every child in the Vung Vieng Village school.
We hope that the OLPC project in this very unique location can be used as a model for the other similarly isolated locales in Vietnam and elsewhere in the developing world.
Vietnam/Saigon
Please Consider Donating Your Laptop To Saigon OLPC Project [5]
Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) is a very large city with more than 9 mln people living in the metropolitan area. Vietnam is making its way to a better economy than in previous years following the war. There are still a lot of challenges that ordinary families cope with. Education is a very big problem in Vietnam, as only primary education is free, but everything beyond that is expensive and not many people can afford it for their children. For those unfortunate who do not have families and means to education, there is not much to choose from. They either go to the Pagoda (temple)to become a monk (only if a boy) or end up in orphanages and shelters and never get educated to the full potential. This project is about bringing XOs to children who can't afford to buy a computer or have better education for themselves. We currently have only 5 XOs, but need 18 total for this project, as we plan for each child in this Saigon shelter to have one.
To donate your laptop to the SaigonOLPC, please contact verhovzeva@yahoo.com for shipping information.
Thank you!
Central and South America
Los Tocones de las Galeras de Semaná, the Dominican Republic
A small village near la Playa Rincόnin the Dominican Republic, Los Tocones is a town that has been very fortunate to have one rich family in it that has provided it with contacts in the US. In the past year, we have built a library in the school and are now collecting baseball equipment to take down in mid-February. Benji Smith plans to take as many XOs as he can for his Eagle Project. More information can be found here.
You can also contact Benji at his email address for more information and to donate, <benji5smith@gmail.com>
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
- A group of volunteers is working 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 public accountability on donated computers.
Wiki page for Bolivia and for Yama Ploskonka, contact in the USA for this project, <yamaplos@gmail.com>. A link to what we have already done to translate Sugar to Aymara, a Bolivian native language.
- 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 TX 78757.
- We want your computer to be used initially for two weeks of teacher training in Bolivia 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.- Please contact us if you need help in erasing your files before sending the laptop in.
- On May 3 more XOs donated through this page are going to Bolivia. That might be the last trip for a while...
- Please contact us if you need help in erasing your files before sending the laptop in.
- We want your computer to be used initially for two weeks of teacher training in Bolivia 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.
The Caribbean
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
Rio Dulce, Guatemala
Casa Guatemala is a home for orphaned, abandoned, or abused children, located on the banks of the Rio Dulce in Guatemala. The orphanage provides education to over 250 children with the help of volunteers from around the world. These children would greatly benefit from the OLPC project.
For more information about Casa Guatemala, visit the Casa Guatemala website or contact us on administracion@casa-guatemala.org.
Nicaragua
A small group of volunteers is working with student in Los Zarzales Leon Nicaragua this group is giving scolar materials and supervising it work, now here is begining the scolar period, but if you can donate equipment it will be welcome, and great help to develop students habilities. if you want pictures contact me lopez3101@yahoo.com
North America
- The non-profit collaboration North End Childrens Project is accepting donations of XOs for distribution to elementary school children
- Hello Laptop, Hello World is a non-profit organization at Harvard College that promotes 1-to-1 computing in elementary and middle schools.
The team is running two pilot programs in the Boston area:
*Mission Hill School *Cambridge Friends School
Both pilots include teacher training and curriculum development. These pilots will serve as an outreach platform for future pilot programs in the Boston community. By developing training materials and curricula for teachers and students, Hello Laptop supports sustainable technology practices. The overall goal is to seamlessly integrate the XO into the classroom, so that it becomes a powerful tool for realizing creative potential. Please email mackenzie@hellolaptop.org and katelyn@hellolaptop.org to donate your XO laptop to our Boston pilot programs.
- The Aspirnaut Initiative, a pilot program created to promote math and science education, takes advantage of time on long bus rides in rural school districts. The program could put your XO to good use. Students travel on buses connected to the Internet using cellular technology and are issued XOs and MacBooks (XOs for the younger children) on which they take online courses and engage in other online math and science activities. Started by Billy Hudson, PhD, a research biologist at Vanderbilt University, who grew up in rural Arkansas and saw the need to offer rural American students special opportunities to break in to science careers. [ http://www.aspirnaut.org The Aspirnaut Initiative ] Mail to Dr. Julie Hudson, Program Director, Vanderbilt University, 1161 21st Ave. S., D-3300 MCN, Nashville TN 37232-2104
For computer science education
Secondary school learning projects
Columbus School for Girls Service Trip to Central America
Columbus School for Girls, an independent, all-girls school in central Ohio is engaged in a multi-year project where high school girls learn about the XO computer, then deliver a classroom set to a developing country. Students will be responsible for teaching the recipients how to use the computers as well as teach the teachers how the computer can support learning. Additional projects might include satellite dish networking, solar panel chargers, and annual deliveries of laptops.
Beginning in the fall of 2009, sixteen students began a year-long course to learn the content so that they will be prepared for delivery and teaching in May of 2010.
Please consider donating your laptop to this worthy project. Not only will you be able to donate your laptop to a child in a developing country, but you will also give high school girls a meaningful experience in IT – a field that is sorely lacking in women. Your donation gives twice! We will also send you an official thank-you note for your tax records.
For information, please contact Christine Murakami at [cmurakami@columbusschoolforgirls.org]
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!
Other community groups
Community software & content developers
Donate your XO Laptop to a software or learning content author by perusing the enclosed list.
- ... <none at this time>
The greater 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 , see OLPC United States#User groups and unoffical groups
- International, see Regional groups
- Deployments lists countries that are deploying XOs.