Russia: Free computer knowledge to elderly people

As a non-profit project, Grandma on-line was launched by a citizens group whose members are chiefly disabled, World War II veterans and other senior citizens of St Petersburg. The founder of “Grandma on-line” is a retired army officer. In order to respond to the Russian presidents call of shifting to the information-type society, he made up his mind to impart computer knowledge to elderly people in 2008. Nicolas applied for funds from government but he didnt succeed.To save money, they tried hard to carry out activities in the public sites, invite on-job teachers from schools, and their teaching aids were collected chiefly from discarded materials from neighborhood communities. In order to cut costs, we began to carry out activities in the public places or the activity venues of the social security association and other departments. In order to reduce spending for inviting teachers, we recruit students of the engineering colleges or institutes to be their teachers and, due to an acute shortage of money, we decided to collect discarded equipment from society, said Nicolas, one of the founders of Grandma on-line.