Preeti, a victim of Polio at an early age, can only walk on her haunches by moving her feet with her hands. Nevertheless, she rarely accepts any help and is quite clever too, with an ability and a willingness to learn that is quite extraordinary. There is a possibility she might be able to pass the school leaving exam and so have the certificate she would need to get a job. Otherwise, she would stand no chance of employment at all. To do this, she needs to learn a great amount. Not least, to be able to know her way round a computer; something totally unavailable to her living where she does, amongst the slum huts. No family there can afford a computer and certainly there would be no internet connection. One skill very useful to her would be being able to type proficiently, at speed and accurately; an added asset if she were to apply for employment and also enhance any time she spent on the computer while at the Project Why NGO class.
So a pet project has begun to teach Preeti to touch type and also for this one-finger typist to learn along with her. Finding and downloading free software was the initial task as we cannot afford to buy expensive programmes at the charity. The first attempt ended on lesson three, as the supposed ‘freeware’ ended there, with pop ups to buy any further use but the second attempt, with Typefast, is proving much better and really free. Preeti took to learning touch-typing quickly and vastly outpaced her tutor, who has been left in her wake, such is her ability to learn, her dedication and her concentration. Her pace of learning is astonishing and she usually has only to be shown something once to have learned it and remember it days later.
Very best wishes for her!
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