When people here of the charities and projects around the world whose goal is to give computers to children in developing countries, the response is often negative: surely food and water are far more necessary than a computer.
So we provide a family with food this month… but what about next month? What about next year? What about in 20 years time when the children have grown up and have a family of their own? The only long-term way to break the poverty cycle is through education. Educate one child who can grow up, find a job and afford education for his/her family and we have broken the poverty cycle for the generations to follow.
Computers can do that. With the right model in place computers can provide more information and learning resources than any school teacher in a classroom ever could. Aleph Molinari has figured it out with his Ria centres:
