Unit 3 The Internet
The Internet has made our lives more convenient. We can chat online, get news updates and go shopping without cash. It has brought a lot of benefits to our lives.
Jan Tchamani suddenly got a serious illness at age 50. It upset her that she was out of work and stuck at home with only her computer to keephercompany. The computer helped her gothrough the lonely and tough days and keeptrackof what was happening outside. She realized that in many cases the Internet had the function of removing the distance between people.
Greatly inspired by the people online, she started to teach older residents how to connect to a Wi-Fi network, register an online account,surf the Internet and load software. She believes that everyone should have access to the Internet. She keepsinmind that her next target is to start a charity website to raise money for children in poor countries.