OLPC: Rwanda points and clicks to growth

The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project is a laudable initiative that brings hope and optimism to our country’s ambitious agenda of transforming this nation into a knowledge based power-house. The OLCP project has great potential of transforming the education system of this country. Its goal is to provide children around the world with new opportunities to explore, experiment, and acquaint themselves with technology at an early age. The OLCP vision rightly falls into a well known Rwandan adage: “igiti kigororwa kikiri gito” meaning, an individual’s character is shaped at the infancy stage. For decades, children of this nation were fed on the toxic campaign of hatred defined by the previous barbaric regimes that took charge of their destinies.