One Laptop per Child Giving Campaign Raises $35 Million

Over 100,000 XO Laptops on the Way to the World's Poorest and Most
Remote Children
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(Business Wire)--One Laptop per Child (OLPC), a non-profit organization focused on
providing educational tools to help children in developing countries
"learn learning," announced today the results of its Give One Get One
campaign that ran from November 12 through December 31, 2007 in the
United States and Canada. In total, the campaign raised $35 million
and more than 100,000 XO laptops are already in the process of being
distributed to children in Afghanistan, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Haiti,
Mongolia and Rwanda.

"We are extremely grateful to everyone who participated in our
giving campaign," said Nicholas Negroponte, founder and chairman of
One Laptop per Child. "The generous response was overwhelming and
significantly helps us move forward our mission of getting laptops
into the hands of as many underprivileged children as possible. Give
One Get One also quickly broadened the global community of XO laptop
users and we're already getting lots of feedback and creative input
about ways to improve the laptop even further."

In addition to making it possible to seed the launch of programs
in a number of countries, the Give One Get One campaign greatly
expanded community participation in the project. The community has
already jumped in to help: the level of activity in OLPC forums, chat
rooms, email lists and wiki has risen dramatically. Give One Get One
participants have asked lots of questions - and have uncovered some
new bugs - but they also have lots of answers and have submitted some
new software patches. The community model is scaling.

About One Laptop per Child

One Laptop per Child (OLPC at www.laptop.org) is a
non-profit organization created by Nicholas Negroponte and others from
the MIT Media Lab to design, manufacture and distribute laptop
computers that are sufficiently inexpensive to provide every child in
the world access to knowledge and modern forms of education. These XO
laptops are rugged, open source, and so energy efficient that they can
be powered by a child manually. Mesh networking gives many machines
Internet access from one connection. The pricing goal is $100.

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