Namal's e-school project launched
The e-school project initiated by Namal Rajapaksa, MP for Hambantota
District to provide ICT (Information Communications Technology) facility
to rural schools was launched recently in Hambantota.
The mission of this project is to increase IT literacy rate of school
children. The event was successfully completed with an online lecture
delivered from Colombo by Communications lecturer Christy Alwis.
Hambantota Suchi National School and Lunugamvehera Central College
were provided with Internet. This program will open a new pathway for
distance learning as many schools will be connected to the Internet.
The children of the remote schools will be connected to the World
Wide Web.
The e-school program was co-ordinated by Sri Lanka Foreign Employment
Agency Chairman, Asanga Abeygoonasekera and was sponsored by ERI
(Environmental Resources Investment), Enterprise Technology (Pvt) Ltd,
Huawei Technologies Co Ltd and CSCT campus. A donation of 400 projectors
was also distributed by Huawei Technologies Co Ltd. |
