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Sharing Computer Technology Knowledge to vulnerable
kids
A group of Taiwanese computer sciencestudents flew from Taiwan
to a poorest
Cambodia province Kampong Speu for
spending full four days teaching computer
technology to orphans and other vulnerable
children who receive sponsorship and under
special care through Sao Sary Foundation.
SSF is an organization working to prevent and
respond to violence, exploitation and abuse
against children including commercial sexual
exploitation, trafficking, child labor and
harmful traditional practices, such as female
genital mutilation/cutting and child marriage.
SSFs child protection programs also target
children who are uniquely vulnerable to these
abuses; such as when living without parental
care and etc. Violations of the childs right to
protection take place in every country and are
massive, under-recognized and under-reported
barriers to child survival and development, in
addition to being human rights violations. Children subjected to
violence,exploitation, abuse and neglect are at risk of death, poor
physical and mental
health, HIV/AIDS infection, educational problems, displacement,
homelessness,
vagrancy and poor parenting skills later in life. Read more at
www.ssfcambodia.org
While there are many NGOs and other aid groups that focus on
helping people who have been
victimized by human trafficking and sexual exploitation, SSF is
special in the fact that it seeks to
identify children at high risk for being trafficked in the
communities where they live, in order to
prevent them from being exploited in the first place. More
information about unique values of SSF can
be reached
athttp://ssfcambodia.org/index.php?page=ssf-unique
Papaya Chen, Marcos Chen and Cipher Kuo are the fourth year
students at
Computer Science and Information Engineering of Fu-Jen Catholic
University(www.csie.fju.edu.tw). The training is started from 15-18
February, 2010 aiming at
sharing computer knowledge and skills as well as introducing
computer hardware
and its assembling is one of the major topics.
SSF began its Computer Education to vulnerable children in
Kampong since early
2008 with several desktop computers that donated by Vichetr Uon,
Founder &
Executive Director of SSF and partial financial support from
Global Colors and
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Riverkids. Even though, so far SSF doesnt have enough computers,
printer, chairs
and desks while this organization has over 60 students are eager
learned. Recently
numbers of desktop computer for computer class are increased
into six [6] which
are possible to divide three students per computer in a session.
The two previous
old computers were broken down one month before we received four
sets donation
from a generous Chinese-Malaysian donor, Mr. Kswong.
The mission of SSFs computer skills training Project can be
summed up as, increasing awareness of
the role of Information Communication Technology (ICT) in the
Cambodias Poorest Communities. By
giving children from poor rural backgrounds increased access to
computers and information
technology, SSF has sought to reduce the discrepancy between the
quality of education between rural
and city students.
Lack of computer proficiency is one of the main problems that
prevent rural children from being able
to attend college, where computer skills are a must. The fear is
that at children from poor rural
backgrounds will fall too far behind to catch up to students
with access to higher quality education,
effectively barring them from the chance to ever attend and
graduate from college, SSF Director
stressed.
Papaya, Marcos and
Cipher spend four hours
per day to teach two
different classes in the
morning and afternoon to
those SSF beneficiary
students. Morning class is
starting from 7.30AM
while afternoon is from
14PM. They hope by the
end of the four-day long
course, those attendees
will uncover the inside of
the computer plus better understanding of the computer
fundamentally.
SSF is looking toward partner with any private donors and other
funding partners to
expand its computer class with sizing class, desks, chairs and
number of computers
into at least 15 sets. A set of brand name computer could buy at
US$550 while
clone or used can be bought from $320 per set. All intended
donors or partner can
contact directly to SSF via [email protected]
mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]
