As a child, Professor Sameer Verma spent many days in Bhagmalpur, his mother's home in northeastern India. Bhagmalpur is a quiet village with clean air and the ills that sometimes befall those in the developing world. The village has electricity just two hours each day and classrooms often lack blackboards. Classes are held outside under trees and parents send their children to school not for the education, Verma says, but because the children are given a free lunch.
Bhagmalpur is also one of the areas where Verma works with One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), a nonprofit organization that oversees the creation and distribution of low-cost, low-power, durable laptops in the developing world. To date more than 2 million of the green XO laptops have been delivered in the developing world. |
