Photos: Nigerian students power up their laptops

The parents in the community gather at another school to hear the principal and OLPC staff speak. Hassounah explains that gaining the parents' understanding and support was crucial to choosing the school for the first deployment of the free XO laptops. The yellow houses in the background are model homes built into the community's center to encourage prosperity. None of the school's families live there.

Photo by Khaled Hassounah