Give a laptop. Get a laptop.

Change the world.

Give One. Get One.

Why give a laptop to a child in the emerging world? If you replace the word "laptop" with "education" the answer becomes clear. You don't wait to educate until all other challenges are resolved. You educate at the same time because it's such an important part of all the other solutions.

The XO laptop was designed especially for children. So no matter who they are or where they live, this computer has the perfect features and software to get them excited about learning. Just imagine how the world would change if every child had the tools to unleash their full potential.

Learn About OLPC's XO Laptop

Education is Our Motivation

Founded in 2005 by MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte, the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) has a simple mission: to create educational opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each and every one with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning.

By giving a laptop, you are helping bring education to children in some of the world's most remote areas. You are connecting them to each other. To us. To hope. And to a better future.

Give Many Program

The Give Many program allows donors to bring one laptop per child to whole classes and schools, and includes Give 100 and Give 1000 programs. It offers hundreds of students a new way of learning that is creative, collaborative and self-empowered.

Give Many donors receive invitations to a deployment workshop, online technical support and materials, and the opportunity to participate in the global OLPC community, now 500,000 laptops strong and growing. Recipients of Give 1000 donations will also receive on the ground assistance from OLPC staff.

Donors can specify a school of their choice, or participate in existing OLPC programs. This makes it easy to direct laptops to specific schools or groups in selected partner countries where we are making inroads into saturation and rural deployment.

Give a laptop. Change the world. Starting at $199

OLPC partner countries and regions include Uruguay, Peru, Haiti, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Ghana, and the UN Palestine Refugee Camps.

$219 per laptop to recipients in OLPC partner countries and LDCs
$259 per laptop to the rest of the world

Every donation of 100 or more laptops includes spare parts. Donations of 1,000 laptops or more are eligible for in-person assistance from OLPC staff.

To become a Give Many donor, write to givemany@laptop.org with your project timeline, and with details about the receiving school or group.

The XO Laptop

The XO is a impactful learning tool designed and built especially for children in developing countries, living in some of the most remote environments. As such, it has several features you won't find on any other laptop.

For starters, it's about the size of a small textbook and made with a rugged plastic exterior. It has built-in wireless and a unique screen that works in full color or black and white to make it readable under direct sunlight. And finally it's ultra-low power using only about 4 watts (most laptops use about 40 watts). This means, when there's no electricity, it can be recharged through alternate power sources like solar power.

Built in hardware includes:

Microphone
Speakers
Webcam
3 USB memory ports
SD memory slot
Game controller

XO comes pre-loaded with free and open-source software. Our commitment to software freedom gives children the opportunity to use their laptops on their own terms. The children—and their teachers—will have the freedom to reshape, reinvent, and reapply their software, hardware, and content.

Pre installed software activities include:
Music editing
Drawing
Writing
Recording (includes audio, images and video)
Basic computer programming
A simple web browser
Distance and sound wave measurement

Every Child Can Change the World.

There are XO's in over 30 countries from Peru to Rwanda, and everywhere it goes, the results are the same. The laptops help children build on their active interest in the world around them to engage with powerful ideas. When the laptops arrive school attendance goes up, and kids begin teaching each other how to use the machine.

With the XO laptop, kids actually learn how to learn. And one by one a new generation will emerge. With the power to change the world.

Common Questions

Why do children in developing nations need laptop computers?

Don't think of it as a laptop, think of it as an education. Laptops are a window into the world and a tool for learning. And we know from years of experience that computers are a wonderful way for all children to learn, create and collaborate.

What makes the XO laptop different?

The XO laptop is designed specifically to improve the quality of education to children in very remote and sometimes harsh environments. The XO's "dual-mode" screen was built to be viewed clearly in broad daylight because many children in the developing world attend school outdoors. The wireless range of the XO is several times greater than most laptops so it's easier to share a wireless internet connection. It's also rugged to withstand rough treatment and extreme environments. And perhaps most importantly, it's highly power efficient using only about 4 watts.

How is it possible to get the cost of the laptop so low?

Volume. If we make a lot of XO's, the cost of each laptop goes way down.
Hardware. We have worked with some of the best partners in the computing world to develop the best and least expensive options for components.
Software. The XO's operating system is based on a free and open source version of GNU/Linux.
Volunteers. Because we're a non-profit, most of the people working with us from the front office all the way to marketing and advertising do so on a volunteer basis.

Who has the XO now?

XO's have been given to children in over 30 countries. Rwanda, Nepal, Mongolia, Haiti, Peru, and Uruguay just to name a few. You can check out some amazing photos of all the different deployments on our Flickr stream at www.flickr.com/olpc

Is the OLPC program working?

Absolutely YES! XO's have been in schools now for almost 2 years and the results have been astounding. In almost every case both students and teachers have given the program rave reviews. Once the laptops are introduced school attendance goes way up, and behavior problems go way down. And in many cases, the kids go home after school and teach their parents how to use the computer.