OLPC Give One, Get One starts today
One Laptop Per Child’s Give One, Get One program starts today. For $399USD plus shipping, you’ll be paying for the donation of one laptop to a developing nation and one laptop being shipped to you. For me, this came to $433.95USD (an unusually low $429.76CAD).
In all honesty: (a) I can’t really afford the donation, but can’t let this opportunity pass (it’ll hurt in December and January when all my year-end bills come rolling in!); (b) although the program is marketed to send the laptop to “the child in your life”, I am that child (anyone who knows me understands how my eyes light up when I get my hands on such innovative use of technology). I do feel guilt for not giving my “get one” laptop to a child, but I have no such child in my life. I plan to absolve my guilt by giving [my limited ability to provide] tech support back to XO owners and to talk to my friends who teach elementary school to see whether I can get the laptop into some children’s hands.
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