3G Handsets Donated to Pensioners

Croatia's VIPnet donated sixty 3G phones to an old peoples home for Christmas. Some of the retired persons living in the Home have already attended a computer course, some of them are surfing the Internet and sending digital photographs to their relatives in Canada, and VIPnet provided them now with mobile phones with which they can surf the net, send photographs and use video call.

"I think that VIPnet's donation is the real choice because our residents have indeed the need to communicate and they received this nice gift at the right time. As a matter of fact, in the next few days they will be able to call their beloved ones, their relatives and share the joy of Christmas with them. VIPnet's donation is a further incentive for us to set up a computer workshop in this Home as soon as possible. As a matter of fact, we are already providing for the computer literacy of older persons. One example is the computer workshop in the local self-administration of "Ribnjak", which was organized this year in the framework of the extrainstitutional care of the Medve

Posted to the site on 2nd January 2006