3 July 2007: No-Power Users

Galadima Primary School in Nigeria is celebrating, because it has just received 300 Laptop Computers for its students from the One-Laptop-Per-Child programme, an international charity.

The OLPC was founded by Nicholas Negroponte, an American professor, to provide laptops for every school pupil in developing countries. The aim is to help with understanding of information technology and the opportunities it brings to developing nations.

But Galadima Primary has a small problem. Although the School is in the centre of the federal capital Abuja, it had no electricity supply. The pupils have to take the laptops home each night to charge the batteries.

[Reference: One-Laptop-Per-Child programme]