By this time i hope that every one would have known about the One Laptop Per Child Project. The promised price of $100 laptop for every unprivileged child by Nicholas Negroponte. Well at first i found the project as one that was very thoughtful of Nick. But like every other thing, its supported and opposed and suddenly i find myself not in consonance with OLPC.
Are they providing fresh water? No. Food? No. Shelter? No. Laptop? YES!!! Ohh its going to make so much difference for the child.
Now with his ‘$100 laptop’ which comes for $200 as the ‘introductory price‘, he order food online, munch through the online junk, drink the filtered out SPAM and look at the fat kids in US with out laptop and say how unprivileged they are.
Now thats the way i see the OLPC vision as…
Look at these fact from the World Hunger Site.

Every year 15 million children die of hunger
For the price of one missile, a school full of hungry children could eat lunch every day for 5 years
3 billion people in the world today struggle to survive on US$2/day (i should stop complaining about my salary and consider myslef lucky)
Every 3.6 seconds someone dies of hunger

Now as a good will justure, they have the Give One Get One offer – you buy a laptop for $400, one goes to a child who is dying of hunger and another is for you as a gesture of your good will.
Many a times i dont get the point – Stars come together for some relief fund raiser program. Put up an elaborate show like the 24Hr concert for saving the earth, where they wasted a lot of electricity for earth (obviously they dont know the idea of SWITCHING-OFF), ask people to spend money and join in for a cause. Aren’t these stars filthy rich, may be at least a 10? Cant they just donate what they get for a month in the from of endorsements. That could have helped the world a long time ago. But we are there too see our Stars, who cares about the dying child 3000 miles away???
Related reading -  One Laptop per Child Doesn’t Change the World – John C. Dvorak