Florence senior association receives $10K grant for computer, internet training - WMBF

FLORENCE, S.C. (WMBF) - The Senior Citizens Association (SCA) successful Florence County received a $10,000 assistance for the Senior Technology Program.

The assistance volition beryllium utilized for the Senior Technology Program which educates seniors connected basal machine grooming and however to navigate the net efficiently and safely.

“The Senior Citizens Association successful Florence County is highly pleased to person Spectrum arsenic a spouse for our Senior Technology Program (STP),” added Linda Mitchell Johnson, Executive Director of the Senior Citizens Association. “We are delighted that we volition beryllium capable to assistance seniors passim Florence County. Our seniors volition larn however to instrumentality technology, flooded their exertion fears, heighten their skills and larn however to navigate the net safely.”

Graduates of the elder exertion programme received completion certificates Thursday from SCA enforcement manager Linda Johnson Mitchell and elected officials Deputy City Manager, Scotty Davis, metropolis councilwoman LaShonda NeSmith-Jackson and metropolis councilman Chaquez T. McCall.

The assistance is portion of Spectrum’s six-year, $8 cardinal committedness to beforehand integer acquisition and broadband exertion successful communities crossed the country.

“In our online world, integer skills are captious to navigating everything from uncovering a occupation to going to school, to buying groceries – yet excessively galore families inactive person not adopted net astatine home,” said Rahman Kahn, Vice President of Community Impact for Charter Communications, Inc., which operates the Spectrum marque of Internet, Mobile, TV and Voice services. “As 1 of the largest net providers successful the U.S., Spectrum is committed to supporting section initiatives similar SCA that beforehand integer literacy and inclusion and assistance amended to assemblage members successful Florence County astir the worth of adopting broadband successful their lives truthful they tin win successful today’s connected society.”

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