DHL delivers laptops to Haiti
DHL Express has partnered with The One Laptop per Child foundation (OLPC) to deliver over two thousand laptops to Haiti for use by displaced students and schools that have been hardest-hit in the earthquake-stricken country. OLPC is a nonprofit organisation whose mission is to help provide every child in the world access to a modern education.
DHL Express is donating its transportation network and logistics expertise for delivery of the refurbished “XO” laptops, a unique laptop developed by The One Laptop per Child foundation.
On 11 March in Dallas, Texas, DHL Express picked up the first set of computers, which reached Port-Au-Prince on the following Monday. Waveplace, an organisation that provides free laptops in the Caribbean, will then distribute the laptops in four communities in Haiti.
“Since the devastating earthquake, DHL Express has provided a significant amount of support for the distribution of relief goods into Haiti,” said Charles Brewer, senior vice president and general manager for DHL Express. “As the specialists in international express shipping, we are delighted to partner with The One Laptop per Child foundation and support this effort.”
“The event of near total reconstruction of Haitian education infrastructure provides the unique opportunity to rethink school and how children learn,” said Nicholas Negroponte, chairman of OLPC. “Providing each child with a connected, rugged, hand-cranked or solar-powered laptop, to use at home and in school, provides a unique learning experience and makes each child an agent of change.”
