An eight-week computer course, dubbed Community Connect, has enabled a number of senior citizens to communicate with their families abroad using skype, whatsApp, face time, twitter, emails, and other forms of social media.
The training for the sixteen participants was sponsored by LIME Anguilla and delivered by the Anguilla Community College through Mr. Nashaine Johnson, the course facilitator.
Dean of the Community College, Dr. Leroy Hill, thanked the course participants for their willingness and commitment to improve themselves. “This Community Connect project is part of our strategic imperative for community engagement, and we are very happy that we have had LIME as the sponsor to move us along this process,” he told the participants in the course. “We have a number of other courses we can offer you know. We have a course call Practical ICT which we can look at, and which it would be an honour to have you inducted in that from the basic computer course.”
Dr. Hill added that the over-subscribed course was a long time in coming and was planned for over the course of two semesters.
LIME Anguilla’s General Manager, Mr. Desron Bynoe, said in part: “When we were approached, we felt it necessary to get on board because I would like to think about us a community company. Here, among you, I see a lot of experience, history and heritage that, unfortunately, social media and technology have widened the generation gap – so it is now more difficult for you to reach your grandchildren.
“Now, through this course, you are now better able to connect with your loved ones and to pass on that Anguillian heritage in a different way than you were previously able to do – using LIME of course. Things of the past, such as when we all sat together having lunch and dinner as family, we are slowly moving away from them. Things have started to change and, as a result, we must change as well.”
Mr. Bynoe said the course participants deserved a round of applause for undertaking the training.
LIME Anguilla’s Marketing Manager, Ms. Jade Reymond, joined in congratulating the participants “for wanting to be part of this new social world”. She said LIME had been working with the Community College for a long time and that, by far, the course was the best initiative of both companies.
A number of the course participants spoke about the benefits of the training and the opportunities it provided for them – particularly to understand the working of the computer and the benefits of using the social media.
