Graduates from Syria, Jordan, Colombia, Sri Lanka, Iran, and Myanmar, gathered together to celebrate the completion of the Refugee Connect Programme and to receive their certificates ... Keep Reading

At e-Learning's 83rd course, Graham Kelly shared the good news that the Government had just reintroduced funding of $1 million for Computers-in-Homes nationwide ... Keep Reading

New Kiwis (former refugees) settle well, but how well do they integrate? We often hear the success stories and we will tell some of those stories during the course of 2020 ... Keep Reading

e-Learning Porirua’s programmes have now reached 2,316 graduates and this is all the more remarkable because the Trust lost Government funding in 2017 ... Keep Reading

Encouraging news is that thanks to the excellent forward planning undertaken by the Trust, e-Learning Porirua is the only Trust in New Zealand that continues in business ... Keep Reading

Graham Kelly, Chair of the E-Learning Board, welcomed everyone and congratulated them for completing the course, saying that it is often harder to be an adult learner, especially when learning to use a computer ... Keep Reading

The 20/20 Trust is one of four partners with whom e-Learning provides this refugee programme and includes the Ministry of Education and the Red Cross. This graduation brings the numbers of refugee families who have graduated through e-Learning over the past three years to 147... Keep Reading

It's a long time since 14 August 2017 when we celebrated the achievement of having influenced the lives of 2,000 low-income families in Porirua, Here was an opportunity to catch up with one of the Trust's valuable supporters ... Keep Reading

Tim Davis-Colley, Executive Director of E-Learning Trust, told the graduates that the e-Learning adventure had started in Porirua in 2001. One of the first course participants in 2001 has now graduated as a teacher, becoming an ICT lead teacher. He said that we have had a lot of stories like this over the years and we hope to have more in the... Keep Reading

Our Computers in Homes graduations are always positive celebratory events. They are made even more special when we have excellent guest speakers and presenters such as local identity Roger Miller. Roger is the Managing Partner across all three Maude & Miller law offices, in Wellington, Porirua and Kapiti. Roger has been the lawyer for e-Le... Keep Reading

Our funding and programme partners make it possible for e-Learning Porirua to continue to increase the digital inclusion levels among the more disadvantaged areas of our community ... Keep Reading

In the absence of Tim Davies-Colley, Noel Evans led the proceedings to celebrate the first graduation since the celebration of the 2,000th ‘student’ in August. Graham Kelly welcomed Deputy Mayor Izzy Ford, Board members Wendy Betteridge and Martyn Newman-Hall and congratulated all the participants. He told graduates about the hist... Keep Reading

It's fair to say that the room was filled with the Who's Who of Porirua City as many came to share in the success that e-Learning Porirua has achieved over the past seventeen years. ... Keep Reading

There are many successful stories we can proudly talk about here. After less than a year in New Zealand, all four boys aged between 12 and 17 of a solo widowed mother are doing excellently in their schools and the mother helps in the community Keep Reading

During the last two years, e-learning Porirua has trained 60 families, newly arrived from overseas and equipped them for the digital world. Families from different countries such as Syria, Colombia, Burma, Tamil, Iraq, Palestine, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Egypt. All the families mentioned here have come under the category of a collectivist culture.. Keep Reading