INTERNET CONNECTIVITY in our remote rural Garram

Garram Children’s School [Orphanage & Rehabilitation Centre] wants to facilitate the establishment of Internet Facility for the education of over 200 hundred children of the school / orphanage, immediate community of 3000 people and a community of 12,000 people. Internet connectivity will relive our people from poverty, improves on their education, and gives them / us hope of economic and political advancement. By Mr. Tonchin A G Guse -Project Leader and Project Director

Computer Literacy is now included in the list of elective exams with which students can meet the required total number of exam subjects. The school's goal is that these students will be able to sit for the Computer Studies exam and will also have developed the credentials and skills to use technology to help them get a job, which can provide funds that will enable them to further their education.

Here are some action we are taking now: With the few computers we received from MJB Charitable Trust, UK and Project Light USA, we have been teaching students how to type, and to use word processing. The students studying accounting have set up a balance sheet, in order to apply something they are learning in the classroom on the computer. There is also a dictionary program on the computers that the students are using to learn new words (in English) and to improve their grammar. The school is beginning to acquire some read-aloud story books for use on the computers, math-practice software as we wait for the Internet connection with the further grants to be raised. We are mindful of the fact that the computers are there to meet the goal of supporting the national testing curriculum.