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Fifty elderly centres in the City of Rome are participating in the Telemouse Project promoted by Telecom Italia and the Fondazione Mondo Digitale. Each centre has been equipped with an Internet corner with three stations where the elderly can practice their new skills even outside of lesson times.
The elderly can rely not only on the young tutors that teach them, but also on a Team of Digital Angels – at present, Mirella, Paolo and Zakaria – who supervise the “digital” activities at the elderly centres and help the elderly in their approach with the new technologies.
Paolo, a new technologies expert, teaches dentistry at the Ipsia “Europa” in Rome. Yesterday, he was at the San Saba “Milani” Elderly Centre wehre he immediately befriended Luciano, the President of the Centre. “I fell regenerated, I’ll come back often to make sure they become independent. It’s great to be able to help them with my experince,” Paolo tell us.
Zakaria comes from Somalia and teaches IT at the Reception Centre in Pietralata. The last elderly centre that Zakaria visited was in the one in Primavalle that is twinned with the Istituto di istruzione superiore Gassman. The Telemouse lessons have just finished and the tutors will see their over-sixty “students” next Tuesday.
Mirella, a former IT teacher, has worked at the Rome Peano Scientific Lyceum. Her next appointments will be with the Villa Lais and Colonna elderly centres.
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