Sunday, April 13, 2014
TWELVE schools in northern Manchester are benefiting from computers provided through Digicel Foundation's Project 1000 initiative. Each school received five computers on February 28 at the Greenvale Computer Lab in Manchester.
Project 1000 is in keeping with the foundation's aim to meet the United Nation's Millennium Development Goal of achieving 100 per cent literacy by 2015. The ICT equipment will be used to provide additional educational resources to enhance teaching and learning in the classroom, specifically the teaching of phonics and reading. The computers are all pre-loaded with educational software and teachers are trained by the Camara Foundation to use these resources in the classroom effectively.
The handover in Manchester was carried out in conjunction with the member of parliament for North West Manchester, Mikael Phillips, who matched the computers provided by the Digicel Foundation.
"The placement of these computers will help in a big way to assist with the literacy and numeracy programmes in our schools," Phillips said. "We recognise that education is one of the main planks in growing a progressive nation and we are doing our part in North West Manchester."
The schools included in this initiative are Medina All-Age, Comfort Hall All-Age, Coley Mountain All-Age, Somerset All-Age, Fairfield Primary, Huntley All-Age, Nazareth All-Age, Bethany Primary, Harry Watch All-Age, Hatfield Primary and Jr High, Auchtembeddie Primary and Mayfield Basic School.
Samantha Chantrelle, CEO of the Digicel Foundation, emphasised the foundation's commitment to improving literacy rates across the island.
"We remain committed to ensuring the further growth and development of students across Jamaica. Since the launch of Project 1000 in April, nearly 3,000 students have benefited from this programme. We will continue to partner with communities and schools across the island until the UN target of 100 per cent literacy is achieved," she said. more
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