Taiwan offers computer aid to Iraqi schools

Taiwan signed Monday a memorandum of understanding with the U.S.-based Mercy Corps to provide computer networking for 14 high schools in Iraq, the foreign ministry said.

It will also help train the teachers and students in the schools so that they can run the Internet networking service centre on their own in the future, the ministry said in a press statement.

“We want to show our sincere friendship to the Iraqi people,” the ministry quoted Foreign Minister Mark Chen as saying in the statement, adding Taiwan is willing to contribute its efforts in helping in the rehabilitation work of the post-war Iraq.

Mercy Corps is a non-governmental and non-profit organistaion dedicated to humanitarian and other services for underdeveloped and war-torn countries. (dpa)