Thus, for SPES - la Société
pour la Promotion des Entreprises Spécialisées - our cultural
and socio-economic duty is to evolve and promote the most appropriate
and cost-effective traditional and modern skills to face the competitive
marketing problems of our e-generation challenging era.
Inspite of our constant financial struggle to create and
produce Art & Crafts and carrying out continuous training to keep
up High Quality work, our leading Hi-tec-oriented Team felt greatly honoured
that SPES was able to participate, as an Associate Research Centre, at
the fantastic UNESCO and WorldSpace Satellites Pilot Research Project
on Testing of their CLASS (Combined Live Audio and Slide Show) system
- during February and March 2004. It was a very enriching experience connecting
3 continents and 30 telecentres equipped with new e-tools, hardware and
software for satellite radios and computers.
As a result NGO SPES proceeded to develop some datacast using this new
CLASS system and thanks to the collaboration of WorldSpace Satellites/Toulouse
was able to test its diffusion simultaneously between 2 Mauritian Centres:
The SPES Vocational & Multimedia Centre in Quatre Bornes (Q.B) and
the Ministry of Youth & Sports Centre situated at Floreal a few miles
away.
A specialized SPES
vocational New Training Skills Teacher Trainer monitored from the SPES
Q.B. Centre the CLASS system computer slides projection and acted as speaker
controlling the two separate groups vocational activity which consisted
in a lesson on how to operate a microwave for healthy food cooking using
(less fat & less guar) and also how to prepare and cook a Pawpaw fruit
recipe.
The 61 children participants
(aged 9 - 15) and the Q.B. group were very attentive seen in both series
of virtual photos and enjoyed tasting the Pawpaw dessert a few minutes
later in their respective centres. The children were very stimulated by
this joint communication and interactivity and network activity facility.
Furthermore they also
took turns at a hands-on hour experience on computers
"playing" sports, such as football and underwater fish games
to encourage a healthy liking for dynamic sports.
Before they left for home each one carrying a Pawpaw plant,
a few asked if they could attend our Newways of teaching of the SPES "Zaco
Sky Skool". We had to tell them ufortunately we had no money but
promised that we would organize an OPEN DAY in June for public awareness
of our cost-effective vocational multi-literacy interactive project.
Let us hope their little voices can be heard for the global
benefit of all children not only in the Mauritian Islands but in all sunny
areas of the World seeing that SPES uses mobile solar panels to bridge
the Digital Gaps.
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highlight of this Saturday 17th April 2004 at the Mangalkhan Centre
was the presentation of a computer by the Vocational Team of the
Rotary Club of Curepipe. After refreshments all the children were
given Pawpaw plants they proudly took home. |
To be noted that the children were also fascinated wiith the mobile solar
panels SPES had integrated to the teaching methods and that the crafted
products made by our SPES mastercraftspeople who stimulated by the new
ICT advancements actually invented a way of extracting a beautiful fibre
from the pawpaw plant, a new addition for our SPES Database of Recycled
Mauritian Fibres we use for our crafted eco-products.
We make an appeal for funding consideration of the SPES holistic approach
for the sustainable development for poverty elimination through the Bridging
of the Digital Gap amongst the new illiterate adolescents at risk as well
as the thousands of newly jobless adults.
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