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| 11.06.2010 Saratov |
| YCDL Expands through Volunteer Efforts | In May 2010, Elena Khanycheva, a computer science teacher involved with teaching juvenile offenders and a volunteer at the YCDL Center of the Saratov University for Social and Economic Studies, held YCDL training courses for twenty-four inmates of the local juvenile penal colony and thirty-four staff workers of the colony in. Given the context, all the training was done in the off-line mode.
Most of the colony’s inmates come from dysfunctional family backgrounds and until now have had no expo-sure to computer technologies. The YCDL Center team hopes that this introduction to digital literacy will be instrumental in helping the young people adjust to community life once they are discharged, enabling them to find and secure employment and/or continue their education.
The staff workers of the juvenile penal colony especially appreciated accessibility of the DL Curriculum and said that their new computer skills would stand them well in bringing IT technologies to the colony on a lar-ger scale. The YCDL Center in Saratov has expressed its appreciation to Elena Khanycheva for her hard work and commitment and to the colony’s director Anton Glebov who encouraged his employees to take YCDL courses by his personal example.
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