Dig­i­cel Busi­ness do­nat­ed ten ad­di­tion­al tablets to stu­dents in need of con­nec­tiv­i­ty for home­school­ing.

Ac­cord­ing to Dig­i­cel Busi­ness, this do­na­tion brings the to­tal num­ber of lap­top and tablet de­vices spon­sored by Dig­i­cel dur­ing the pan­dem­ic to 1,925.

Lau­rence Mod­este, Gen­er­al Man­ag­er of Dig­i­cel Busi­ness said: “Dig­i­cel Busi­ness is very pas­sion­ate about ed­u­ca­tion and en­sur­ing that our na­tion’s stu­dents get the sup­port they need. We will con­tin­ue to work with stake­hold­ers to fill the gaps, as we are all in this to­geth­er.”

The re­cip­i­ents of this lat­est do­na­tion come from schools through­out the coun­try, whose par­ents are do­ing their best but need ad­di­tion­al sup­port.

Mod­este added: “My moth­er was a school Prin­ci­pal so I have a deep sense of per­son­al re­spon­si­bil­i­ty when it comes to ed­u­ca­tion and help­ing oth­ers. The team at Dig­i­cel tru­ly be­lieves in our mantra of Bet­ter To­geth­er, and we en­cour­age oth­er cor­po­rate en­ti­ties to join the move­ment.

“Let’s each do our part, even if it’s one stu­dent in your com­mu­ni­ty, we have to get them all con­nect­ed.”

Dig­i­cel said its oth­er on­go­ing ed­u­ca­tion­al sup­port mea­sures in­clude the ze­ro-rat­ing of all ed­u­ca­tion­al web­sites so that stu­dents do not need da­ta and are not charged for ac­cess­ing e-learn­ing web­sites in Trinidad and To­ba­go. Ad­di­tion­al­ly, through the Dig­i­cel Foun­da­tion, Dig­i­cel do­nat­ed 1,915 de­vices (tablets and lap­tops) with free ser­vice to stu­dents through­out the coun­try, in­clu­sive of all 34 Spe­cial Needs Schools and 68 main­stream schools.

Dig­i­cel Busi­ness has al­so of­fered 50 per cent dis­count on ser­vice to teach­ers, and the com­pa­ny con­tin­ues to spon­sor free wifi for the Char­ford Court home­work cen­tre in Port-of-Spain.