Computer Workshop

It's sometimes hard to find a computer guy in action - but I had the perfect opportunity on Monday. Santi was asked to provide a "computer maintenance" workshop for a group of radio station managers from around Ecuador (and one guy came from Peru).

This week HCJB is providing various radio training for our radio partners in Latin America. These are small little radio stations reaching out to their communities. Most of them have very little resources and HCJB is devoted to helping them through training, giving technical support and providing programming through the ALAS satellite network.

So I was able to catch Santi in action as he was explaining the various hardware that a computer has (don't ask me to explain it here as I probably couldn't!). He also gave information on various software available as well as ways to keep your computer clean from viruses.

I was invited to have lunch with the group and it was interesting to hear where all these people were from - one man came all the way from Peru - traveling days just to get here. Another young man, from the Saraguro indians way south in Ecuador, had traveled 12 hours by bus all night in order to attend the week-long seminars. Two people from HCJB's station in Guayaquil (the costal city of Ecuador) came to participate. And one man, from a radio station reaching into Ecuador's jungles, arrived, celebrating 25 years of being on the air!