Proof of the OLPC concept in a Peruvian village
Posted on December 26, 2007 - Filed Under OLPC, technology |
Here’s another example that the One laptop Per Child (OLPC) campaign can change the lives of children around the world. The AP reports this incredible story about impoverished children in Peru interacting with the device.
But you don’t need to convince us at blogflict, we believe in the XO laptop. In fact, this post is being made from the remarkable computer.
Below is an excerpt from the AP story:
Doubts about whether poor, rural children really can benefit from quirky little computers evaporate as quickly as the morning dew in this hilltop Andean village, where 50 primary school children got machines from the One Laptop Per Child project six months ago.
hese offspring of peasant families whose monthly earnings rarely exceed the cost of one of the $188 laptops — people who can ill afford pencil and paper much less books — can’t get enough of their “XO” laptops.
At breakfast, they’re already powering up the combination library/videocam/audio recorder/music maker/drawing kits.
At night, they’re dozing off in front of them — if they’ve managed to keep older siblings from waylaying the coveted machines.
“It’s really the kind of conditions that we designed for,” Walter Bender, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology spinoff, said of this agrarian backwater up a precarious dirt road.
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