It’s a generally regarded truth that teaching children how to handle a computer and know how to use the internet as a learning and knowledge tool is one of the key challenges of education today. If we agree that that is very hard in the US, just try and figure out how hard it must be is in countries of the third world; the One Laptop Per Child program is set out to solve the technological gap by providing one laptop to each third-world child in school age, to make them familiar with the resources the internet has to offer.
By visiting this site, users can learn more about this very interesting project, take a look at the list of countries which participate, read testimonials and, of course, donate. Probably one of the most interesting bits of the site is what you’ll find under to ‘Xo Laptop’ tag, where you’ll learn that the computers that are being given out to children have been specially designed by a group of MIT engineers in order to make it light and compact enough to be comfortably used by a small child, you can also take a look at the special capabilities and built-in features for social networking, collaborative work and sharing material; you can also explore the interface and software of these linux-powered laptops have and what plug-ins you can get for it. 
