The project Give One Get One that aims to help educate children by donating laptops, launched on November 12th extends the opportunity to participate in donation of the revolutionary XO laptop to a child in a developing nation, and also receive one for the child in your life in recognition of your contribution.

The increased interest in the program success is resulted by extension of the program beyond the initial 2 week period to the end of December, 2007.

Official site announces: “Through this extension, and the increasing public interest in OLPC, we hope to give many more children the opportunity to grow, explore, learn and express themselves.”

MIT Professor Nicholas Negroponte shares his experience about realization of the importance of laptops in a child’s life and about the results of the transformation that led him to the foundation of One Laptop per Child, and creation of the XO laptop.

The mission of OLPC is “to provide a means for learning, self-expression, and exploration to the nearly two billion children of the developing world with little or no access to education.”

The XO is designed by experts. The main features of the product are:
Durable,
Brilliantly functional,
Energy-efficient,
Responsive,
Fun

OLPC hopes to participate with the governments and organizations to distribute large numbers of laptops at a time. The countries which are expected to be supported by the program are:
Afghanistan,
Cambodia,
Haiti,
Mongolia
Rwanda

OLPC keeps discussions about adding more countries into the program. Out of every $399 contribution, $200 is tax deductible as a charitable donation.

Donors who are taking part in “Give One. Get One” in the boards of are offered one year complementary HotSpot access by T-Mobile.