Laptop-for-kids project resumes donation program

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(AP) -- The One Laptop Per Child project plans to resume its Give One Get One program, in which people spend $400 to buy one of the nonprofit's rugged computers and donate a second one to a child in a developing country.

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Posted by Sepp 05/21/08 06:56

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Give one - get one should be a permanent program. It is good to see that this next instalment will open to people in Europe.

I can imagine that any respectable household will want to have at least one of those computers as a signal that they helped get them to poor people...