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Those of you who serve the web frequently and drop by different blogs must have come by something called Blog Action Day. This year the topic is Poverty and so I will blog about something which will help us to help the poor, something that can help us make this world a better place.

All of you must have heard about the One Laptop Per Child Foundation whose mission is to ensure that all school-aged children in the developing world are able to engage effectively with their own personal laptop, networked to the world, so that they, their families and their communities can openly learn and learn about learning.
The OLPC Association focuses on designing, manufacturing, and distributing laptops to children in lesser developed countries, initially concentrating on those governments that have made commitments for the funding and program support required to ensure that all of their children own and can effectively use a laptop.

A single laptop costs $100. A donation of $200 will pay for and deliver one XO laptop to a child in a developing nation, $400 will pay for and deliver two XO laptops, and so on. Your entire contribution will be tax-deductible. So To give a laptop to a child in the developing world, please visit Give a Laptop.

The OLPC Foundation has volunteer opportunities too. Please visit the Participate Page in for more details.

Let us join hands and make this world a better place. Visit the One Laptop Per Child Foundation website today or read more about it on Wikipedia.