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Rome (Fides Service) - Teaching in Congo is a challenge: years of dictatorship and war made many teachers emigrate. Now, thanks to parents determined not to give up seeing the urgency of education for their children and who offered to pay teachers wages, and thanks to support from the Barnabiti fathers who sustained the parents and accepted to take over the direction of St. Paul’s College in Mbobero (Bukavu), the college’s750 students will have access to new technology and all the opportunities offered by the Internet bridging the IT gap which excluded Congo’s young people from those in the rest of the world.
The project launched by the Movement to Fight World Hunger intends to promote literacy by spreading a culture of computer use among the local young people providing access to the Internet as a means of learning and cultural inter-action, fostering also a micro-business of information service to make jobs.
The project has already taken concrete shape: engineers from Milan Polytechnique installed a satellite dish at St. Paul’s college and are now equipping a hall with 11 PCs. Two local experts will be the project laboratory team. (AP) (1/9/2005 Agenzia Fides; Righe:21; Parole:245)
