‘Class on Wheels’ to Offer Computer Education to Rural Government School Children: Know More

M Friends Charitable Trust, which is into arranging food for caregivers at Government Wenlock Hospital in Mangalore, will offer basic computer education to government school children in rural areas through its new ‘Class on Wheels’ bus which will be launched on November 18. ‘Class On Wheels’, is a bus converted into a computer classroom for students of rural areas by M Friends Charitable Trust in Mangalore.

The trust’s general secretary Rasheed Vitla said the idea of starting the bus came from Mohammed Haneef Puttur, manager (Cloud and Infrastructure), Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre Lab in the UAE. Apart from 16 laptops and 16 revolving chairs, the new bus has a projector, a television, sound system, WiFi, and Internet facilities. Using two experienced teachers, the trust will provide 15 hours of basic computer education to students of Classes 6 and 7.