By purchasing items with the Robot or Giraffe design, thanks to you, Tykecoon will donate to One Laptop Per Child.

The ROBOT design was selected because it represents technology and the future and its heart stands for the love of knowledge and the sense of empowerment it brings.

The GIRAFFE design was paired because the tall neck of the giraffe recognizes a new perspective and point of view computers will bring to the children who receive them. This fantastic organization will bring future generations from all parts of the world closer together so we all have a better understanding and appreciation of our neighbors.

One Laptop Per Child Mission

Most of the nearly two–billion children in the developing world are inadequately educated, or receive no education at all. One in three does not complete the fifth grade.

The individual and societal consequences of this chronic global crisis are profound. Children are consigned to poverty and isolation—just like their parents—never knowing what the light of learning could mean in their lives. At the same time, their governments struggle to compete in a rapidly evolving, global information economy, hobbled by a vast and increasingly urban underclass that cannot support itself, much less contribute to the commonweal, because it lacks the tools to do so.

It is time to rethink this equation.

Given the resources that developing countries can reasonably allocate to education—sometimes less than $20 per year per pupil, compared to the approximately $7500 per pupil spent annually in the U.S.—even a doubled or redoubled national commitment to traditional education, augmented by external and private funding, would not get the job done. Moreover, experience strongly suggests that an incremental increase of “more of the same”—building schools, hiring teachers, buying books and equipment—is a laudable but insufficient response to the problem of bringing true learning possibilities to the vast numbers of children in the developing world.