Today with the support of Orange computer rooms furnished with internet were opened in Yerevan special school N 14 for children with visual impairments and in the special educational complex for children with hearing impairments.
“As a telecommunications company our business mission is to facilitate communication among people and cover distances. However, we are also responsible for giving a helping hand to those who due to their disabilities or other reasons are isolated from the surrounding world and are unable to benefit from telecommunications opportunities. From now on these children will have almost the same opportunities as their peers, and for the children with disabilities it is even more important to get to know computer from eraly years, as knowledge of computer will provide them with much more opportunities to be independent and self-reliant in future,” said Orange Armenia CEO Bruno Duthoit.
Computer needs of those with visual impairments are different from ordinary needs, and therefore many years ago a special software AREV was developed by the National Institute of Mathematical Machines after Mergelyan, the updated versions of which could not be run on old computers available at school. New computers will enable the children to benefit from the opportunities provided by the state-of-the-art technologies, i.e., use internet, scan text and listen to scanned e-text, obtain other computer skills, etc. Computer room is equipped with 7 computers, a projector, printer/scanner and Orange Flybox router.
Special school N 14 for children with visual impairments is the only suchlike school in the whole republic. It has been operating since 1939 and has 96 pupils (age of 6-20), including children from RA regions who stay at school at night. Here the children study for 12 years and after graduating around 90% of the them enter higher educational institutions.
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The special school N 154 for children with hearing impairments has 154 pupils, among them children from RA regions and Nagorno-Karabakh. The school also has a preschool class for 5-year old children. From now on the educational complex will have a modern computer room, equipped with 5 computers, a projector, printer/scanner and Orange Flybox router.
Orange has allotted total 5,204,600 AMD to open computer rooms in these two special schools.