OLPC Kenya Video: OLPCorps Kibwezi XO Deployment

12 Mar 2010

Kibwezi is a small rural town located in the arid region of Kenya, about half-way between the capital of Nairobi and the coastal city of Mombasa. Many of the students come from the surrounding farms. Their families survive on subsistence agriculture and many do not have electricity or running water in their homes.

The access to XO laptop computers stirs emotions of pure joy inside of the children as you can see by this video:

Read more about this deployment XO laptops on the OLPCorps Kibwezi blog.

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