 Newsletter June 2008 |
Happy MonsoonThis year we had so much rain before the monsoon that when it arrived the second week in June it was almost an afterthought. However the mangoes and lychees are abundant so all is right in the world. This will be a short newsletter - more like a "news memo", just to give you two links to check out. |
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Discovering Deaf Worlds Writes about UddamiDave Justice and Christy Smith have taken a year to travel around the world to meet and interact with deaf people and communities. They were in Kolkata for a week and wrote this about Uddami:"Alison and Bryan go beyond the realm of computer training and education. The students who walk through the doors of Uddami leave six months later with a newfound sense of self-confidence, pride, and independence."read more in the Discovering Deaf Worlds June newsletter |
Bryan teaching Tulsi and Guria about programming |
New India Website for UddamiWe just launched our new interactive website that tells about everything we do in Kolkata. This is where you can find our student webpages, photos of our latest students and success stories of our graduates.We asked some of our graduates to talk about Uddami and some of their quotes are in our first blog post. Here is what Somnath Sardar, Manager of the Uddami Partner Project, had to say: "Teachers at a partner project [both graduates of Uddami] were saying that before they didn't dream about how they could do this and that, but now they can dream…"Please visit and let us know what you think of the new website, you can leave comments on the post: uddamiindiafoundation.org |
Rabia (on right) teaching at UCTC |
| As always, with your support we can accomplish so much - together we really do change the lives of our students!
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| Uddami Computer Training Centre 158/4 Prince Anwar Shah Road :: Kolkata 700 045 :: West Bengal, India uddamiindiafoundation.org |
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Special thanks to our 2008 donors The Shadhika Foundation, Mundo Cooperante, Kevin Barker, Don & Janice Hughes, Yiwen Stewart, Tom Saracena, Linda Haber, Liz Winsor, Bruce Slesinger, Elia & Halimah Van Tuyl To give a donation to Uddami please click here. |
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