“My job is to provide education and resources for families,” says Mary White, a Dorchester resident who leverages her lifelong experience as an asthmatic and mother of asthmatic children to help families with similar challenges. She was one of the graduates of the Tech Goes Home program at CSNDC’s Computer Learning Center during the pandemic.
Mary says that not being computer savvy was holding her back both personally and professionally. She was finding it increasingly difficult to manage multiple doctors’ appointments herself and her mother, husband and children. She was also feeling increasingly hampered in her advocacy work.
“These days, it’s totally impossible to do anything without the computer,” she says.
When she learned about the program at the CLC, she prayed she would get in. “You can’t imagine how it has changed my life,” she says. “I feel so blessed to have this laptop and this knowledge. I’m now able to stay in tune and in touch with individuals, and that has meant the world to me.”
Next, Mary plans to apply her new-found computer confidence and skills in a new business she will be launching to support families like hers.
“When you have knowledge, it’s so important to not keep it to yourself,” she says.
