July 23, 2001

Research Subcommittee
Committee on Sciences
U.S. House of Representatives

Dear Sirs:

As President of Two Directions, Inc. and Native American, my company
qualifies as a women's owned minority enterprise. The focus of my
company is to provide services to the Native American community.
Two Directions, Inc. provides training to Temporary Assistance for
Native Americans (TANF) clients of the Southern California Tribal
Chairmen's Assn., Inc.  The TANF program provides welfare benefits
to Native Americans from nine north San Diego County Indian
Reservations.  The training we provide to our clients includes GED
preparation, computer classes and computer lab time, life skills,
driver's license preparation and Quickbooks accounting.  The training
is conducted on the Rincon and Santa Ysabel Reservations which are
both in fairly remote locations.

Thanks to the HPWREN project, our labs have been connected to the
high-speed Internet for almost nine months.  I want to describe to
you how my company and our clients use this very important resource,
and how positively their training is impacted by the use of the
Internet.

The computer teacher incorporates the use of the Internet in his
instruction from the beginner's class to the advanced class.  The
students are taught to use e-mail, to use search engines for class
assignments and research, to use web databases for graphic design
to incorporate artwork into their assignments; he has taught them
to use the internet to search for jobs and to prepare resumes.
The clients are fascinated with this new technology, they are eager
to learn, they are attentive at class, and they are creative and
making good progress in the use of computers and the Internet.

I make the labs available to our clients for e-learning courses,
and do in fact have staff and clients taking Internet courses from
Palomar College.  I have a client taking a QuickBooks business
courses through Instructionow.com on the Internet.

My personal goal for the company web page (Two Directions.Com) is
to use it to provide the TANF clients with a continuously updated
class schedules and class locations, current events, special events,
video clips of classes in session or field trips, changes in
regulations or events that are specific to the TANF training that
our clients are receiving.

Please convey to the National Science Foundation the sincere
appreciation of the Native American community from North San Diego
County, California for providing us with this very important
technology. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to
contact me at 760 749-1196.


Sincerely,

Pamela D. Arviso
President