Uddami

Uddami is a free computer training center. It is a non-profit organization, where we learn computer. What we learn in Uddami, that is very helpful in our career life.

It is really very-very helpful to us. It is specially for them, those who don’t get any opportunity anywhere. It gives that lucky opportunity.

In Uddami teachers are very good and they explain very well and they teach very clearly. Their behavior is very friendly like an elder sister. So, I like them and respect them.

This center …has good thinking for the poor who doesn’t get any opportunity. …they inspire us to build our career and give us open path to success.

So, again I respect and thank them to give us so great opportunity.

Shyamali Midhya, teacher at our partner project, Divya Jeevan Foundation

Perhaps the $100 laptop is not the answer to bridging the digital divide… These are the questions Ray Fisman poses in his article The $100 Distraction Device:

So will kids use these subsidized computing resources to prepare for the demands of the 21^st century job market? Or do computers just serve as a 21^st century substitute for that more venerable time-waster—the television?

New research by economists Ofer Malamud and Cristian Pop-Eleches provides an answer: For many kids, computers are indeed more of a distraction than a learning opportunity. The two researchers surveyed households that applied to Euro 200, a voucher distribution program in Romania designed to help poor households defray the cost of buying a computer for their children. It turns out that kids in households lucky enough to get computer vouchers spent a lot less time watching TV—but that’s where the good news ends. “Vouchered” kids also spent less time doing homework, got lower grades, and reported lower educational aspirations than the “unvouchered” kids.

Read the whole article: http://www.slate.com/id/2192798/

I am very very much appreciate about Uddami, what they have done to me totally changed my life. If they didn’t give the job and computer skill I would have not [be] here where I am now.
Thanks to the Uddami team.

Sk. Sameer Ali (translated from Bengali)
Computer teacher at Msiha, Uddami partner project

“UDDAMI”

I greet you congratulation[s] “UDDAMI”
You h[e]ld my hand & took me out of the darkness
You gave me the address glory & inspired me,
You made one of the best out of the ten
You made noble person in front of the whole
World so once again
Thank you “UDDAMI”

Sukla Mazumder

I want to say lots of things about Uddami, but I don’t have any words. Yet I am trying to tell something. Uddami has totally changed my life.

Actually I was fond of [the] computer from very small age. When I was grown up I was looking for the centre where [you] can take training. Every centre needs only the money, but Uddami is the only centre where without spending any money I have got the opportunity to take the computer training so carefully and in [a] very friendly environment.

Before taking training in Uddami, where I [went] for a job interview, everyone asked me do you have the knowledge of computer? And my answer was no. Then I got the answer from them, that sorry we could not appoint you, because you don’t have the knowledge of computer.

But here in Uddami I have got not only the computer training but also how to communicate with others and how to speak in English. Uddami has shown me the way to earn money, and taught me how to be independent. So I am really very much thankful to Uddami.

Thank You,
Samsoni Sarkar

Welcome to the new Uddami website! We wanted to change our design so that we could have a more interactive website. Please feel free to make comments - we would love to hear from you!

Here are some comments from some of our teachers, all of whom are former Uddami students:

Somnath Sardar, Project Manager, Uddami Partner Project

Teachers at a partner project were saying that before they didn’t dream about how they could do this and that, but now they can dream…

Rabia Khatoon, Project Manager, Uddami Computer Training Centre

Uddami provides us what we need for the course without hesitation and with a clean heart.

Shyamali Midhya, teacher at Vidya Jeevan

This centre has good thinking for the poor who doesn’t get any opportunity. [Uddami] is specially for them, those who don’t get any opportunity anywhere.

Sarwesh Kumar Jha, teacher at Msiha

It’s not only computer skill it’s about behavior - how they treated us it’s wonderful, [there’s] not such a word that express[es] my feeling…