A Laptop for Every ChildmissionMost of the nearly two–billion children in the developing world are inadequately educated, or receive no education at all. One in three does not complete the fifth grade. The individual and societal consequences of this chronic global crisis are profound. Children are consigned to poverty and isolation—just like their parents—never knowing what the light of learning could mean in their lives. At the same time, their governments struggle to compete in a rapidly evolving, global information economy, hobbled by a vast and increasingly urban underclass that cannot support itself, much less contribute to the commonweal, because it lacks the tools to do so. _____________________________________________________________________ This program will try to give children in third world coutries with a piece of technology that will greatly improve their lives in more than one way. These laptops are today's and the future's technology. Through this program, many children will get to broaden future because they will know how to use a computer that is based on a free operation system (LINUX), WordPerfect, and programs on there that teaches them how to use html. Buy one now before December 31, 2007, for $399 one laptop will be given to a child while you get to keep one or give another one away. You will also get one year of free Hotspot, through TMOBILE. $200 is also tax deductible. But most of all, you're giving a child a chance for a better future. |