Peruvian leaders hope OLPC machines will transform rural schools

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Some 486,500 laptops loaded with children's literature, educational software and digital cameras are headed to parts of Peru where impoverished students seldom even have their own text books.

In rural Peru, "things are pretty primitive," said political scientist Henry Dietz, a University of Texas at Austin expert on Peru. "Electricity is a sometimes thing, and ... the school is four walls and a roof and some benches, and that is about it."

The laptops are headed to 9,000 tiny schools in remote regions such as ­Huancavelica, in the Andes, an arduous 12-hour bus ride over rocky roads southeast of Lima, and villages such as Tutumberos, in the Amazon region, days away.