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CCSI received the following email message on February 7, 2000
I work as the lead computer instructor in the Dashoguz Business Training Center. We are located in Dashoguz, Turkmenistan. Dashoguz is in the north central area of the country, near the Uzbek border. We are very isolated here, which is proving to be an advantage in some ways.
In the Business Training Center, we train entrepreneurs in computer topics including Microsoft Windows '95/98, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel and PowerPoint) and other applications. We are planning technical training which will hopefully grow into a full six-month technical course. In addition, our two-year students learn English Grammar, Business English, English Conversation and business topics.
My most competent computer student, who is a certified teacher, is teaching evening school classes to part-time students. Other advanced students have taught for UNICEF to support their efforts within the Turkmen public schools. We have come a long way in the one year of our existence and are now considered a vital part of the community which absolutely must survive and thrive to ensure the growth of small businesses in the Veleyat.
Currently, we have a lack of volunteers to come here to teach the business courses, and I am filling that role myself. Fortunately, I have both the education (MA degrees in Management and Computer Resources Management) and many years of government, business and industrial experience. Unfortunately, my time is becoming more and more limited with additional responsibilities as Acting Director (our Director is in the United States with a serious heart condition.)
I am very interested in finding our what any organizations on the CivilSoc list have to offer in terms of educational material and training support. Currently, we are fully-funded, however that is always subject to change from one year to the next! We are trying to become self-sufficient by partnering with our senior trainees, some of whom want to manage a computer training facility. We hope, during the year 2000, to help them develop a Business Plan which will allow them to run the Dashoguz Business Training Center themselves, and my wife Christine and I will remain as "volunteers" instead of leaders, to support and mentor them.
We have no Internet access, so if you have a web-site, we have no way of accessing it at this time. (That is one of my projects for the year 2000, developing an Internet receiving site.)
I thank you for any assistance you might be to us, here on the outer edge of Turkmenistan! Respondents, please use the e-mail address below.
Sincerely,
Max Dolan
E-mail: [email protected]
Last updated: February 2000
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