Sumcot
Sumcot, or the Sumve Community Computer Training Center, is a computer training center in the town of Sumve, near Mwanza in Tanzania. It was set up with the help of Wilde Ganzen, a Dutch NGO, and the Sumve Foundation, an organization with the aim of supporting the Sumve Designated District Hospital (DDH).
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the Sumcot building
Sumcot is used to train the following groups of people in basic computer skills:
- Sumve DDH staff
- students of Girls Secondary School
- students of Sumve High School (boys and girls)
- students of NMTC (Nursing and Midwifery Training Centre)
- other residents of Sumve, who want to acquire/improve computer skills
The center currently has 16 student computers, plus one teacher desktop and a teacher laptop computer. It has a projector, used to give presentations as part of the lessons. There is also a Local Area Network and a central file server. Recently, TTCL erected a tower at Sumcot which will soon be delivering fast internet services.
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