Computer classes have started at WellSpring. Every Saturday morning the girls meet for a 2 hour instructional lab on basic computer skills.
They are currently being taught the basic components, access skills, and typing. Each week the skills will be layered until the children are able to perform critical skills such as creating documents, spreadsheets, and researching academic topics.
The girls are very excited to learn. In Mufulira Zambia, each of the girls attend school where in each of their classes there are over 90 students – these are large schools – and yet the only computer instruction they are able to receive is just the instructor on a chalkboard writing theory and sketching basic drawings to illustrate the topic. So the WellSpring girls are being given a major opportunity for advancement amongst their fellow classmates.
The girls are very fast in learning and naming the computer parts, and the early lessons are therefore accelerating each week. Before these lessons started none of the WellSpring girls could really imagine the basic function of turning a laptop on or off, and for them a mouse is just something that needs to be killed before it gets into the food pantry and spoils everything.
The WellSpring girls are being trained with skills that are in demand as technology is making its way across all of sub-Saharan Africa. The issue is the education system doesn’t have the resources to start the children learning at a young age, so currently in the Zambian education system a child begins learning these basic skills during their university years.
So these skills will put our children well above their classmates and as a bigger calling WellSpring sees this ability to educate moving out into our future planned adult higher learning centers – centers that will strategically target the vulnerable for critical life changing skills.
Thank you for making all of this possible, please continue to pray as the team utilizes every resources to impact the lives and futures of these amazing children.
