The mission center that we live in (Ukarumpa) also has a fairly substantial training center. This training center is a joint effort between SIL-PNG and BTA and comes under the name Pacific Institute of Languages, Arts and Translation (PILAT). Many courses are offered here ranging from translation principles, Biblical languages to basic and more advanced computer skills.
A couple years ago PILAT was having trouble organizing the information on who attended each of the workshops and the language that each student was associated with. I developed a simple application to keep track of all of this data and also to provide meaningful reports based on that data.
The application has evolved into a scheduler, emailer and is now beginning to get into the quotation/billing side of things as well! It's exciting to see something that I built being used from day-to-day to keep one of the critical parts of our mission running efficiently. Training is core to our work as we seek to equip our co-workers for the Bible translation work God has called them to.
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