Pokhara, February 21:

Though the computer classes were introduced targeting students, elders in their sixties are learning how to handle computers at Arwa Bijay VDC in Kaski.

Some 24 elders in their sixties, including 18 elderly women, are enthusiastically taking the computer classes after two persons, Om Prakash Sedain and Dharmaraj Baral, donated three computers to local Jagaran Ama Samuha in Arwa Bijay VDC-4 which is around seven kilometres far from Pokhara.

Sixty-seven-year-old Lila Nath Bara said that he has been taking computer classes after it was introduced a week ago.

“I had heard about computer from my ten-year-old grandson. But now I myself have been taking the computer class,” Rewati Sige, 66, said, sharing her happiness. “Computer is

no more a miracle to me now,” she said.

However, elders taking computer class here has been a matter of surprise to their grandchildren.

Some 60 persons of the village and adjoining areas are attending the computer class.

“Though the classes were launched targeting youths and students, the training has also been provided to elderly persons as they were interested,” one of the trainers Om Prakash Sedain said.

“We have divided elderly persons in two groups. We are teaching typing, e-mail and Internet to literate elders and teaching the basic about computer to illiterate elders,” Sedain said.