Silver Surfers At Home

A great cause headed by Barney Gumble, we at V.D.I. wish its every success, find out more click here http://www.ssah.org.gg/
shoud you wish to help please PM Barney,

Thank you GD, i wil publish more news as it breaks :)

Well Done Barney :)

Hi all, and thank you for reading this thread.

If it wasn't for a few members here, the project wouldn't have even been possible!!!! Suppose some of you might've thought this was pie in the sky, but now its coming to fruition!!

The official site (which im trying to update) is http://www.ssah.org.gg/

Now.. Longue Rue House have offered kindly to be the pilot project. Being a States Home, it took a while to get things sorted. We have a broadband line being installed very shortly (kindly donated by Sure CW) at the home by C W Engineers. (More details to follow) We also have hardware donated by myself and other parties. http://www.FastFS.com/ has also contributed to the project with advice and hardware so thanks goes out to Jonah for his help to the project. We are also very grateful to everyone else who have offered support via our support forum on our site and a meeting will be requested shortly to run through logistics.

Being a project starting from scratch, and trying to benefit elderly people and give them a new skill to help them in life, its entirely done with the goodwill of the people involved. Its a totally free service and i hope this will extend to further homes in the island!

We are in need of a decent sized desk for the desktop system to be situated. We have the base system etc... We also need if any of you have any kicking round the house and wish to donate...

A Set of Speakers
A Printer
A Desk
Maybe another System to enable a few more residents to learn at same time.

And also, we will need kind hearted people* who could give up maybe an hour of their time a week to help the residents learn a new skill. I will be participating in this venture along with a few confirmed venture, but as i work full time along with others, theres always room for additional help !!

Once again, thanks for reading this thread, this project is GO GO GO!!! and whatever support you can give to this project is gratefully appreciated.

Feel free to PM me on here or email me on admin@ssah.co.uk for further details!

Kind Regards,

Barney.


*We're in talks with the homes and at present we are of the consensus that as we are dealing with vulnerable clients, a Police check may be required if you wish to offer services directly to the residents

Great Interveiw on Radio Guernsey Barney ... Well Done

well done barney.the ladies sounded so enthusiastic as well

Great Channel TV article Barney you deserve an extra pint..or 2..lol

well done barney.....((hugs))
we are proud of all your hard work !!!

Is that what i pay my TV licence for to watch Barney :PMSL: No mate you did good .

lmao!!!!

still waiting for the press to run the story!!

heres the new silver surfers logo.

What do you all think???

very nice....bright and fresh..... :D

My Mum asked me this evening about buying a laptop, she said that a bloke comes round to your house, and teaches you to use one, she saw it on the news. lol, i said no mumsey, you have to be in an old peoples home to take advantage of ss@h. so that's that, no way will she go into an old peoples home as she is only 80 !! lol

bless her a?

Ah prehaps Bg you could take up private tutor lessons....

i know of pother possible outlets who might like this if you are interested
Not old folks home as such but old folks gathering places

like where?

Jubilee house,the Russles, And other places that age concern meet

We're in todays press in Guernsey. The project is growing now. iam pleased with the outcome and the growth. Next home is in the pipeline now

Thanks to everyone involved and heres to a brighter futire for the old folk!

ive been doin the maitanance at the russell all this week only seen one computer in all the flats ive been in,everyones on a tigt budget down there too dont think that theyd be able to afford one

http://www.ssah.org.gg/content/latest.php

We're in the Maison Maritaine now...... Scheme 2 on its way to local success

Check out the link, tell me what you think!!

looking good alan.great news xx

Great ..told you ..you could do it eh!

good on u Barney :)

thanks KK

The residents at Longue Rue House are getting to grips with the computer. So much so, Margaret Le Blond (pictured below) had caused a bit of a stir, using the machine every morning!! I decided it was time for a second machine, kindly donated by Fast Fix Services. Margaret is very pleased with the new machine as she can continue to play card games every morning now while the other residents have a free machine to use for the internet! Thanks again Jonah!