Doha: The Center of Empowerment and Elderly Care (Ehsan), one of the centres of Qatar Social Work Foundation, an affiliate of the Ministry of Social Development and Family, has concluded the “electronic education” programme.
It was convened for the seventh year in a row, in collaboration with Qatar Assistive Technology Center (Mada).
In a statement issued yesterday, the centre stated that this year has been dedicated to training the elderly people on the crucial applications on smart devices. A training programme was organised to educate them on the techniques of using “Google Maps” application to further enable them to get familiarised with the way of accessing various locations through the utilisation of the program search features to enhance their independence and self-reliance.
The Head of the Preparation and Design Division at Ehsan’s Awareness and Community Outreach Department Zainab Al Kuwari said that Ehsan has been committed to diversifying its programme over the seven years to ensure that the largest segment of the elderly enrolled in the programme can benefit from it.
Al Kuwari said that the centre permanently seeks to select the programmes that will potentially achieve the benefits and gains for the elderly people.
The electronic education programme is intended to facilitate the utilisation of state-of-the-art technology by the elderly people within its general framework to further employ them.
It comes within the framework of Ehsan to advance the recognition of the role played by them, including their contribution to the social, economic and cultural development in Qatar. As well as enabling and supporting their active engagement in all fields and spread the societal awareness with respect to their core rights and causes and working to achieve inter-generational communication.
