Monday, December 14, 2009

Gearing Up

Refueling the drive to be back in the game of realizing this dream.
Delay has its own penalty; some more time the elderly remained without IT skills.
I have been thinking that I can not make it happen and giving in to the circumstances...

Monday, August 31, 2009

Teaching Internet Surfing To Elderly - A program being run in Philippines

A cherished friend Yvette Mercado Garcia sends our team some encouragement from Philippines. She shares information about a similar campaign that is being run in Philippines.

I could not resist visiting the links that she shared and then googled a lot to search and found many links to collect information further.

Giving a few of the links here:

http://teachlola.blogspot.com/2009/08/about-teach-lola.html
http://www.teachlola.com/
http://www.bayan.com.ph/lolatechie/
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/lifestyle/08/19/09/bayantel-launches-compute
r-literacy-program-elderly


Thanks Yvette for this help. It would help us play big.

Friday, August 21, 2009

I M A GEEK NOW - THE PROJECT HAS BEGUN

Actually the project started a few days ago, when I thought about it.
I don't remember it now as when exactly did the idea of doing such a project hit me.
I am into this "Information Technology/ Computers" thing for more than 11 years now but my parents have no idea about it. Most of the elderly people I know, still see a computer as a mysterious magical box. Many a times I thought of teaching/educating them about it but
I never went ahead. Probably the life was driven by the perpetual "someday I would do ..." phenomenon so far.

On 20th August-09, when I discussed the idea with few of friends I have worked with before and with whom I share a wonderful rapport, they also felt that this idea should be realized so that a new future could be created for our dear parents, relatives and acquaintances.
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I M A GEEK NOW

The project "I M A GEEK NOW" is a project which targets the elderly people including our parents, neighbours, relatives and just anybody that we can get in touch with. We are going to convince them about the benefits of being familiar with Information Technology and we will also offer to teach them such a "GYAN" (Knowledge in English) for free of cost.

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