By Angie Sullivan | Cofounder, Project Leader
One of the most effective aspects of the after school and day camp programs at GRACE Family Resource Centers in Thailand is digital computer training class. It's grand!
Collective classes within group settings prove effective at our centers. Group sized vary from two persons to a class of twenty. Laptops may be shared with two or three children working together on a skill set, or connected to the projector in our large classroom where children take turns guiding the group through various lessons.
Four computers are available for the children at our two Family Resource Centers. We need six more laptop computers.
The staff members eagerly teach the children basic skills of keyboarding and creating documents.These enthusiatic leaders provide consistent praise and encouragement as they provide assistance for children. Young ones achieve confidence as staff and other children celebrate their ability to hone the skills of hand-eye coordination with operating the mouse and keyboard; likewise, older children advance in English language and document creation skills. All achievements are celebrated and no child is reprimanded for delayed development.
Older children enjoy teaching the younger children. This provides another level of confidence while simultaneously building relationships with each other.
This is your support at work! We realize you cannot physically be at the after school program but you are making it possible to provide this incredibly vital aspect of educational support to the children of GRACE.
Provision of computer literacy classes is as important as reading comprehension in a world advancing digitally each day. The ability to learn and apply computer skills eradicates the vulnerablity often associated with illiteracy-related exploitation and human trafficking situations.
Your support not only advances a child today, ...... it establishes an adult of the future.
Thank you!
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