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THISDAY ONLINE / Nigeria news / African views on global news
The MTN Foundation (MTN F), through its SchoolsConnect project, has donated a digital library, which includes 14 networked computers, VSAT equipment and internet connectivity with one year subscription and insurance cover to Demonstration School for Deaf Children in Kaduna State.
Other items that were donated included an 18 KVA generator, multimedia projector and white board, software to aid teaching, four air-conditioning units, as well as an internet research and e-mailing system with online collaboration resources.
Executive Secretary of MTN F, Mrs. Nonny Ugboma said the school was the first of such to benefit from the SchoolsConnect project in Kaduna, adding that the effort was aimed at building critical infrastructures in public schools.
She said the package would come with a training workshop for teachers with special training provided by experts in the area of ICT education using Microsoft Digital Literacy Curriculum (DLC) and other educational content.
According to her, the teachers would in turn teach students with hearing impairment to make optimal use of the facility, adding that four schools each in Katsina, Bayelsa and Kano States would also benefit from the project.
Director of the Foundation, Alhaji Muhammadu Danlami, had earlier said that aside the SchoolConnect project; the foundation also funds a UniversitiesConnect project, which seeks to place students in Nigerian universities on the same footing as their counterparts in other parts of the world by providing them with access to online resources from across the world through digital libraries.
Currently, he said the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria (ABU), University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) and University of Benin (UNIBEN) are beneficiaries of the project.
He added that, the foundation has also awarded scholarship to 500 students in tertiary institutions across the country under the MTN F Science and Technology Scholarship Scheme, adding that the beneficiaries would each receive N200, 000 every year until they graduate.
The MTN Foundation (MTN F), through its SchoolsConnect project, has donated a digital library, which includes 14 networked computers, VSAT equipment and internet connectivity with one year subscription and insurance cover to Demonstration School for Deaf Children in Kaduna State.
Other items that were donated included an 18 KVA generator, multimedia projector and white board, software to aid teaching, four air-conditioning units, as well as an internet research and e-mailing system with online collaboration resources.
Executive Secretary of MTN F, Mrs. Nonny Ugboma said the school was the first of such to benefit from the SchoolsConnect project in Kaduna, adding that the effort was aimed at building critical infrastructures in public schools.
She said the package would come with a training workshop for teachers with special training provided by experts in the area of ICT education using Microsoft Digital Literacy Curriculum (DLC) and other educational content.
According to her, the teachers would in turn teach students with hearing impairment to make optimal use of the facility, adding that four schools each in Katsina, Bayelsa and Kano States would also benefit from the project.
Director of the Foundation, Alhaji Muhammadu Danlami, had earlier said that aside the SchoolConnect project; the foundation also funds a UniversitiesConnect project, which seeks to place students in Nigerian universities on the same footing as their counterparts in other parts of the world by providing them with access to online resources from across the world through digital libraries.
Currently, he said the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria (ABU), University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) and University of Benin (UNIBEN) are beneficiaries of the project.
He added that, the foundation has also awarded scholarship to 500 students in tertiary institutions across the country under the MTN F Science and Technology Scholarship Scheme, adding that the beneficiaries would each receive N200, 000 every year until they graduate.