The One Laptop Per Child organization pretty much speaks for itself and it is obvious that their purpose is helping educate children in less developed countries, by offering laptops as means of learning.

This year, OLPC has joined forces with Amazon.com in the Give One Get One campaign. The deal is that people can buy an XO laptop for $199, or buy one laptop to keep and one to give away for $399. Obviously, the laptops that are given away go to children less fortunate who really need them.

Using laptops as tools for learning is a great idea, as the technology available today makes for better results and a faster way of searching for information and accumulating more knowledge.

Last year, OLPC organized a similar campaign which ran from November 12 through December 31 and which managed to raise a total sum of $35 million. Last year, approximately 100,000 XO laptops were distributed to children living in Afghanistan, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Haiti, Mongolia and Rwanda.

The XO laptop is a machine made for rough conditions. It is made to last and provide the most basic commands a computer should offer. The materials from which this laptop is made are a lot thicker in order to cope with different hits it might encounter. The XO laptops run on GNU/Linux-based OS, Sugar. The machines come with pre-installed software, offering access to music editing, drawing, writing, recording, a basic Web browser and simple computer programming.

Hopefully, this year’s campaign will manage to raise enough funds and laptops to help out where is needed. People from OLPC hope that this year’s campaign will raise more funds than last year's.