On Monday, September 9, over two hundred new laptops brought from Taiwan began to be handed over to educational institutions of the Ivano-Frankivsk region, which are participants in the Ukrainian-Taiwanese Leave no one behind partnership project
On Monday, September 9, over two hundred new laptops brought from Taiwan began to be handed over to educational institutions of the Ivano-Frankivsk region, which are participants in the Ukrainian-Taiwanese Leave no one behind partnership project.
Under the terms of the project, schoolchildren studied in two-day entrepreneurship and innovation camps. Student teams proposed innovative business ideas and presented projects to their peers. After training, the children received certificates for computer equipment for school computer science classrooms.
“Chalk and blackboard have long been in the past, every school needs computer equipment,” says Iryna Sumaruk, head of the department of education, youth and sports of the Verkhovyna settlement council. – “There are no such topics as innovation and entrepreneurship in the school curriculum. You can study this, for example, on paid courses or platforms. And thanks to the Taiwanese educational project, our children have gained valuable knowledge in their community, and modern computer science rooms will appear in schools.”
The Verkhovyna OTG of the Ivano-Frankivsk region unites 11 mountain villages. In total, there are 29 educational institutions in the community, 12 of them are preschool.
“We held the first educational camps in the mountain villages of the Ivano-Frankivsk region. We managed to reach 16 schools in the region, in particular, to visit remote communities. In total, about 5 thousand children study in these educational institutions,” said the project manager in the Ivano-Frankivsk region, Maria Makivnychuk.
“As soon as the computer equipment arrived from Taiwan to Ukraine, we took it to the schoolchildren. It is important that the children from the new school year continue to get acquainted with innovative technologies with modern equipment. Thanks to our partner – Taiwan – we will also hold such camps in the Lviv region, and later in the Poltava region. At the same time, 48 computer science teachers from three regions are currently improving their qualifications at UCU, using a unique methodology. Their schools will also be equipped with computer classes. This is a separate project called “leave no one behind”.
The project is implemented by the “All-Ukrainian Democratic Forum” public organization with the support of Taiwan and with the assistance of Mykola Kniazhytskyi. The goal of the project is to improve the quality of education and make technology accessible to schoolchildren.
“As part of our cooperation with partners from Taiwan, dozens of Ukrainian schools will receive computer classes. We will hand over more than 1,100 computers that children will use to learn how to live in the modern world. We started entrepreneurship and innovation camps in mountain communities. Many internally displaced persons came to the mountain regions escaping the war. Local children will have the same opportunities as residents of other villages and cities. This is our investment. in the future, so that young people can live, develop, and work in Ukraine. Our schools must be the best, and the children must be the smartest. Together, we will build a better country,” emphasizes Mykola Kniazhytskyi, the founder of the All-Ukrainian Democratic Forum.
