Cheap lap tops for poor students in third world countries

[tc101]

I heard a story on the radio a few weeks ago about some group that is making cheap lap tops for poor students in third world countries. Originally they were supposed to only cost $100 but the price has risen to $200. They have a deal where people in the USA can pay $400 to buy 2 of these cheap laptops. Then one of them goes to a poor student in the third world and the other goes to the doner in the USA.

I might want to do this. Does anyone know the name of the group doing this and where they are on the internet?

[Seisen]

I believe you are talking about One Laptop Per Child.

http://laptop.org/

[Daveth]

as well as in articles such as

http://www.linuxelectrons.com/news/mobile/11401/olpc-linux-based-laptop-wins-international-design-award

and scattered through the news items in

http://www.linux.org/news/2007/08/28/0002.html

[bodhi.zazen]

Moved as this is not a request for support ...

+1 on this and similar projects.

Along these lines, my wife and I refurbish computers, wipe the hard drives, install Ubuntu, and distribute them to the needy on our community.

The problem is obtaining donated boxes. Please, if you have an old computer, rather then filling our land fills, donate it in your community.

/end rant

[popch]

Moved as this is not a request for support ...

+1 on this and similar projects.

Along these lines, my wife and I refurbish computers, wipe the hard drives, install Ubuntu, and distribute them to the needy on our community.

The problem is obtaining donated boxes. Please, if you have an old computer, rather then filling our land fills, donate it in your community.

/end rant

Where I live, government agencies are required by law to offer their old equipment to schools. As it turns out, our 'old' stuff is even for the schools too old, so we have to discard it anyway.