Rotary Electrical Equipment Delivered
Through a Rotary Foundation matching grant, the
Rotary Club of Beirut
Cosmopolitan,
and the Rotary Club of Hamburg-Blankenese, equipped the JLSS Electricity
Workshop with sophisticated electrical equipment from Germany.
This equipment was badly needed in order to start Dual System Industrial
Electricity training next academic year 2013/2014.
Our Rotarian friends decided to support this project as part of their
overall effort to bring vocational training in JLSS to the 21st century.
The electrical equipment was ordered from Lucas-Nülle - Germany.
It was delivered early December 2012.
The Rotary Foundation also covered the cost of freight, customs, VAT,
handling and clearance.
As it is the case with every Rotary project, providing training to staff
is always part and parcel of every project.
Dr. Christian Staab Schmidt, Managing Director of Lucas-Nülle
Middle East, along with Dr. Hans Laufer arrived to our school on Monday
14 January 2013. The equipment was installed on Tuesday, and both Dr.
Staab Schmidt and Dr. Laufer returned to Beirut for a lecture on
Wednesday.
Dr.
Laufer returned to JLSS and provided two days of extremely valuable
training to our staff on how to use the electrical equipment.
The training sessions were attended by both trainers of the JLSS
electrical workshop. Two guest trainers also attended, as one of them
will be employed by JLSS next year. Trainers form both Industrial
Mechanics and Car Mechanics departments of JLSS were asked to attend the
training, in addition to all students of the Electricity Department.
We thank Dr. Laufer for the excellent training sessions and the
extremely valuable information he shared with our trainers and students.
We thank him for his patient and kind approach in conveying very complex
training concepts. We especially thank him for allowing us to capture on
video all the training sessions for future reference by our staff.
It was obvious that further training will be necessary when the
equipment will be used next year for launching the DS program in
Industrial Electricity.
On Monday 21 January, Dr. Christof Ackermann (RC Hamburg-Blankenese),
President George Beiruti, and Mr. Toni Asfour (RC Beirut
Cosmopolitan) visited our school to follow up the project. They saw the
newly installed equipment, visited workshops, and talked to trainers and
students about the equipment and the training
sessions.
Our trainers and students expressed their sincere gratitude to the
Rotary partners for the equipment and the training. They were all very
thankful that the JLSS electrical workshop finally has the modern
equipment needed for DS training.
We express our most sincere gratitude to the Rotary Foundation, the
Rotary Club of Beirut Cosmopolitan, the Rotary Club of
Hamburg-Blankenese, Dr. Christof Ackermann, President George Beiruti,
Mr. Toni Asfour, and all our Rotary partners for enabling Schneller
School to modernize its equipment, keep pace with modern developments,
and provide skillful vocational training suitable to our modern times.