SNOW Becomes a Preacher of Happiness to Foreign Workers
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- Writer 총관리자
- 보도일자 2010-07-09
Sookmyung Women’s University bought laptops through collected funds that they got by running SNOW and donated the laptops to the Computer Education Center of Seongmoon High School, Anyang. Starting from the donation as the first outcome of SNOW’s knowledge sharing, Sookmyung Women’s University is planning to keep its consistent knowledge sharing work.
MR. Eileen Lao, a Filipino who works in Anyang, waits for weekends, counting the days. It is because he takes free computer classes for foreign workers at Anyang Seongmoon High School on every Saturday and Sunday. For not only can he enjoy learning with other foreign workers at school but also he can reach the news of his hometown that he left five years ago, he likes attending the class. It is the same to Mr. Peter twerwenenji, a Congolese foreign worker. He also enjoys his weekends at the computer class of Seongmoon High School. He learned Hangeul(the Korean alphabet) as well as computer by asking questions to his classmates and answering questions from them in class.
The number of foreign workers who wanted to join Seongmoon High School’s computer class had been consistently increasing and Director of Seongmoon High School couldn’t stop worrying about the number of foreign workers due to its poorly equipped computer center. They had about one hundred students taking free computer lessons at the moment and it was a big number compared to the past when they had started the class with only a few students. Consequently, they needed to have seven more computer rooms to admit all the students who wanted to join the class.
The story of free computer class for foreign workers at Seongmoon High School was sent to the SNOW Development Department by Chanhee Noh, a freshman of Sookmyung Women’s University graduated from that high school. Ms. Noh had volunteered in the computer center for foreigners during her high school years, and sent the story to a prize contest of which aim was to provide high schools with the cost for computer facilities.
“In addition to the absence of wireless hubs, computer rooms are unreasonably short, and foreign workers take computer classes in class rooms without computers,” Ms. Cho described the unfortunate environment of the computer class for foreign workers.
The SNOW Development Department had raised funds up to five million won through performance of visitors on SNOW, and bought five laptops to improve the situation in the Seongmoon High School’s computer center through the fund. They visited the high school on the last twenty eighth and presented the laptops. Morever, they educated foreign workers how to use the SNOW site where they can be taught from world’s renowned scholars. Kisuk Lee, Chief Officer at the department of Information and Communication, clarified, “education for foreign workers is out of our sight even though they are members of our society. We decided to support Seongmoon High School to fill the gap between different social groups and to do our duty.”
Mr. Eileen Lao and Mr. Peter twerwenenji Roh expressed gratitude to Sookmyung Women’s University after they got provided with new computers. Mr. Lao said, “Now computers would never be turned off, and I can study harder.” Mr. Twerwenenji also said, “I will improve my computer skills through the new good quality computers until I can tell the world that I consider myself as a computer expert.” He truly thanked Sookmyung for the donation.
The SNOW Development Department met Changseon High School students and donated be better computer facilities on the sixteenth of April as well. Hyojeong Seo, a freshman of Sookmyung Women’s University, who graduated from Changseon High School sent the story of her small old high school in which students find it hard to reach education and cultures because of its location isolated from the Korean peninsula. Her story carries that the school is so small that the total number of students of school doesn’t even exceed two million and they need to see the bigger world to dream for bigger hopes and come out to the world.” Ms. Seo added, “Once my juniors in Changseon High School hear the lectures of world’s famous scholars on SNOW, their prospect would be widened, and that might lead them to conceive the huge world.”
The SNOW Development Department remarked, “We will continue to help the education of both schools through mentoring ties with them” and expressed their hope, “we hope our social contribution activity of sharing knowledge on SNOW will benefit other high school students in the countryside.”