"We've never had this opportunity before" |
This was the comment we heard most frequently over the last few weeks as we've made our way around some of the remote INF offices in the Mid West and Far West Regions of Nepal.
The staff attending training hold various positions: a few are office based - working in finance or administration roles, while others work in remote field offices a days walk or more from their nearest colleagues. Still others work as nurses, physios or lab technicians. Some have their own work computer, a few have a personal lap top and others only have access to a shared computer in their work team. The one thing they all have in common is their hunger to learn.
So what are they learning? The original plan was to give an overview of MS Office Programs, with a focus on Word, PowerPoint and introductory level Excel. The reality has started way before that and in some offices gone far beyond.
The staff attending training hold various positions: a few are office based - working in finance or administration roles, while others work in remote field offices a days walk or more from their nearest colleagues. Still others work as nurses, physios or lab technicians. Some have their own work computer, a few have a personal lap top and others only have access to a shared computer in their work team. The one thing they all have in common is their hunger to learn.
So what are they learning? The original plan was to give an overview of MS Office Programs, with a focus on Word, PowerPoint and introductory level Excel. The reality has started way before that and in some offices gone far beyond.