In CeC Bawa, age doesn't matter

Written by CeC Manager, Bawa
Thursday, 13 June 2013
Acquiring knowledge through education is one of the key factors to which a person may achieve his goals and dreams in life. Every person aims to acquire a certain degree of education no matter how young or old he may be. With this in mind, the Community eCenter of Barangay Bawa in the Municipality of Gerona, Tarlac, in cooperation with the Community eCenter of Gerona, works hard in giving proper computer training to its stakeholders. When the center was launched last February 14, it aimed to help the people in the community to be knowledgeable in Information Technology and the opportunities it can offer. The job of being a CeC Manager is tough since you are teaching different kinds of people: housewives, bystanders, out of school youth, senior citizens, differently abled persons, and others.
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What It Takes To Win 15,000 Swiss Francs

Written by Linda Navarro Balbuena
Monday, 10 June 2013
Left: The CeC Malvar Signage, Right: The proud members of the CeC Malvar. It was a dark and gloomy Monday afternoon, the roads were flooded due to the heavy downpour, and I was on my way to Barangay San Andres for the opening of our CeC sa Barangay when I thought to myself, "Why in heaven's name do I even have to go to the barangays when I am quite comfortable working in my air conditioned office?" At the time, I had to pamper myself with the thought that we were empowering a lot of our women by teaching them basic computer literacy. Otherwise, I had doubts. Where will this bring me? It was in this frame of mind that I chanced upon Telecenter.org's blog about "Train the Most Women to Become Digitally Literate and win 15,000 Swiss Francs worth of ICT Equipment!" I studied their timelines and figured that if we could complete the training in our 15 barangays on top of the ongoing training in our CeC office, we actually just might make it.
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Written by Administrator
Wednesday, 05 June 2013
Upper left: The seven out of school youth females pose for a shot during their training in the eDasol CeC. Upper right: The young mother learning the course while carrying her one year old daughter. Middle (below): Trainees present their multimedia presentation to their fellow trainees. Out of School Youth trains in the eDasol CeC It is the desire of the Dasol Community eCenter to fully cater training services to a maximum number of communities in the municipality. Within the month of May, the center was able to train seven females who are out of school youth. The center helped and assisted them in learning the basics on computer operation. The next set of out of school youth training will be for males of the same number for the month of June. These enrolees are mostly high school graduates but they cannot enter tertiary level due to financial constraints. While waiting for their chance to study again, they were accommodated in the center to undergo the basic computer course. On a positive note, if the opportunity to study does not arise for these trainees, they at least have acquired invaluable skills to help them in their job applications or even go into their own business ventures.
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