The Arizona Home Learners project aims to extend needed technology and software to home school families throughout the state - building on the Global Literacy Foundation mission that "quality learning should be personal, affordable and convenient".

Home school families use a variety of learning methods to deliver education to their children. These include traditional and non-traditional curriculum from a vast number of home learning resources. The gap exists when families within home learning communities have limitations to accessing quality technology and programs to ensure optimal success. As home learners are not part of the brick and mortar school system they would inadvertently lose out on any government funded technology programs that might be implemented in public schools.

Global Literacy Foundation has been set up to help develop, deliver and promote accessible, quality online learning programs worldwide.
Implementations are simple and well defined.

1) Use appropriate hardware
2) Use best of breed software
3) Employ appropriate Professional Development & Training methods based on the latest learning research.

The One Laptop Per Child’s mission is to provide children around the world with new opportunities to explore, experiment and express themselves. The following examines the benefits of this portable personal computer as a learning tool for children.

• Sustainability - The XO laptops are highly power efficient the systems use fewer than two watts, less than one tenth of what a regular laptop consumes. The XO laptops contain no hazardous materials. The XO's NiMH batteries contain no toxic heavy metals and have enhanced battery management for an extended recharge-cycle lifetime.
• Affordability - The hardware is designed with affordability in mind.
• Flexibility - OLPC XO's use of free and open-source software will serve to ensure that children are free to shape their own futures: children are being given a computer where nothing is hidden from them, the internals of the operating system are there for them to inspect, learn from, and hopefully learn to improve. These children will potentially have an understanding of computers that greatly exceeds the children using a proprietary paradigm of computing.
• Non-Conformity - The laptop technology provides a rich educational environment even in the absence of teachers. It follows a constructionist educational philosophy that focuses on leading the child to discover knowledge for themselves.
• Community - The technology of the XO units foster a sense of community amongst its users through the mesh network.

This is the opportunity for interested stakeholders to spread literacy through grassroots efforts. The Global Literacy Foundation is proud to support the Arizona Home Learners Project.