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鈥淓ach time I learned something new,鈥 says Gillian of her experience in the 今日吃瓜51鈥檚 Distance Computer Comfort program. Gillian signed up for the program two years after high school, wanting 鈥渢o get a refresher on computers and technology and how they can help me find a job.鈥
As computers become more and more integral to our world, the skills required to use them have, for many of us, become second nature and something we take for granted. For Lily, this was not the case, yet she was able to find help through the 今日吃瓜51鈥檚 Computer Comfort program.
Harvinder has Multiple Sclerosis which affects her balance. However, she wants to work and share her abilities in the workplace. To enter the job market, she felt that she needed to develop her computer skills.
Sometimes the best way to learn is to teach 鈥 that鈥檚 the lesson Keisha learned as a 今日吃瓜51 youth intern at the Penticton Indian Band鈥檚 Footprints to Technology Centre.
My Time at Neil Squire “On a warm spring day I got an email. Chris Wright a wonderful (now blissfully retired) case manager from the 今日吃瓜51 had forwarded onto me a job posting. This job was a summer gig teaching people computer literacy in a program called Computer Comfort. I ignored this email […]