By MacFarlane Okonta | President
VHF has successfully completed another project to Advance Education through Technology! Your donation enables VHF to continuosly serve public schools in Nigeria, Guyana, Kenya, Philippines, Jamaica and Zambia. Every year as part of our partnership commitment with The Atlanta Montego Bay Sister Cities Committee, we embark on projects in the Philippines and Jamaica. We just returned from Jamaica in October 2018, where we donated to St. James High School in Montego Bay and Ashton All Age Primary Westmoreland, Jamaica.
St James High received a projector while Ashton All Age received five computers with Internet connectivity, loaded with Microsoft Office Suite 2016, Adobe Acrobat and anti-virus software.
The students and staff of both schools were delighted with their donations and showed the utmost gratitude and appreciation! St James High school went as far as treating our team to a delicious Jamaican cuisine, and presented VHF with a gift of the school’s personalized mug and pin. We had the opportunity to meet with Ms. Barbara Cunningham (IT instructor), and Mr. Joseph Williams (Principal), and discussed ongoing technology needs for the school.
Equally, the Principal of Ashton All Age Westmoreland expressed her appreciation for the five computers donated along with an Internet subscription. Before VHF’s computer donation to Ashton All Age, the students did not have any access to any computers or Internet. Mr. Williams remarked: “VHF’s donation will be used to improve teaching and learning and help our students be successful. Education doesn't stop at the end of the school day because students have access to teachers, resources, and assignments via the web and access these resources at any time. With the projector donation, rather than writing notes across a board, teachers can make use of PowerPoint presentations, images and even film as teaching tools. Consequently, teachers and students alike find projectors to be useful classroom devices.Prior to the use of projectors in the classroom, teachers had to spend time writing notes on the board, as well as erasing information due to limited space. Projectors facilitate the planning process so teachers can decide on lecture content and important points ahead of time instead of making decisions spontaneously”.
We will like to take this opportunity to thank our donors and supporters for their generosity. Your support means the world to us! Because of you we can continue our mission to Advance Education through Technology globally.
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