2.4.2009
The press conference was held today in V. High School in Zagreb on the occasion of resources donated by T-Hrvatski Telekom to equip the cabinet for work with gifted young information scientists. This aid, which will provide the students of this High School with even better conditions for their learning and improvement, is achieved by T-HT within broader education project called Let Us Donate Knowledge.
“We are especially glad we had the opportunity to congratulate with this donation for many accomplishments of the students of V. High School in the information science so far. We are also glad to be able with this cabinet equipment to participate in all of the future excellent results at Croatian and international information science competitions “, said Alemka Lisinski, director of the Corporate Communications Department of T-Hrvatski Telekom.
"We are particularly glad to be the ones to receive this donation. It enabled us to equip the information science cabinet with modern equipment we needed for work. Computers we bought from donation will be accessible by the students outside of the regular classes, which is surely going to contribute to their better accomplishments. We used a portion of money from donation to equip standard classrooms too with LCD beamers and we procured a certain number of laptops to modernize the classes of other subjects", added Petar Mladinić, schoolmaster of V. High School in Zagreb.
About the Project Let Us Donate Knowledge:
In order to emphasize the importance of knowledge for the entire society, T-Hrvatski Telekom supported within the project Let Us Donate Knowledge by the beginning of this year twenty institutions or associations throughout Croatia gathering various groups: pre-school children, high school pupils and students, children and adults with special needs and persons of the third age. The donation of over 1.2 million Kuna in total enabled the realization of twenty education projects. The drive comprised various contents: arrangement of three kindergartens destroyed during the Homeland War, in Pokupsko, Pučišća and Smokovljani, cabinet equipment for work with gifted information scientists, winners of many international medals, in Zagreb XV. High School; puppeteer workshops of the Art Academy in Osijek. Together with Sabirnica (Collection Point), the oldest information science association, T-HT organizes information science courses for the young with deteriorated hearing, and with the Croatian Association of the Blind – for the blind. The project of preparing information databases for monitoring of the Primorje-Gorski Kotar County children of the Rijeka Rehabilitation Center with neuro-risks is being co-financed. Computers were donated and information science courses were enabled to all the homes for the elderly and the infirm in the territory of the city of Zagreb.