Radio Taiwan Intermational
Date: 2018-07-04
Taiwan is working to give a brighter future to students in Myanmar by bringing computers
Minister of the Overseas Community Affairs Council, Wu Hsin-hsing (fifth from left) pictured at a press conference Wednesday alongside others involved in a project to donate computers to classrooms in Myanmar. (Photo by CNA)
into classrooms. Through a donation program, a government ministry and a civic group have teamed up to provide used computers to some of the country’s schools.
210 donated computers from Taiwan sit ready for shipment to schools in Myanmar. The Southeast Asian nation is a developing country, and there are local schools that do not have computers.
These 210 used computers are destined for schools catering to students of ethnic Chinese heritage. The computers were collected by a Taiwanese civic group and the Overseas Community Affairs Council, the government ministry in charge of liaising with ethnic Chinese communities abroad. [FULL STORY]