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Volunteer trainer Gökçe:
“We aspire to touch hearts”
Working as a volunteer trainer in “Life is simple with Internet” project, and student in Business Administration Department of Ege University in Izmir, Ms. Gökçe Uygur said for the project: “Under the project, our aunts themselves take their appointments for hospital visit. Through e-state, they can view the grades of their children. They can view lacework samples, soap samples on the Internet. We aim to demonstrate that they can access anything. Particularly, our women in villages who used to have difficulty accessing the cities now say the state has arrived at our feet. We aspire to touch hearts.”
She learned Internet at age 70, sold handicraft products to the United States
Ms. Semihe Şengül, who learned Internet at age 70 in the training delivered by the volunteers, is another personality who carried her success story to overseas. She operates a restaurant in Sinop, as well as markets her hand-made products such as noodles, pastes, meat pasty on her website; and recently made a sale to the United States over the Internet. Ms. Şengül said “Internet opened up my horizons; now I see better. I learned all over there. I shipped my very
beautiful hand-made products to the United States. I sold to the United States over the Internet. I knitted Ayancık flaxen beautifully, shot pictures; posted it on the Internet and it was sold. I shipped according to the order. I gained many beautiful stuff from there. My place benefitted considerably from the Internet. I repaired my place, restoring it nicely. I cook delicious meat pasties, cheese pasta. I host the guests; I accept acquaintances and good people as boarders at my home.”