In 2020, when the pandemic was at its full force my grandma or ‘Naniji’ as we call her was a victim of a cyber fraud. She lost a lot of her money. This incident created significant fear in her and my grandfather. We often heard them counsel their friends to be extremely cautious about cyber fraud and phishing schemes. They both refused to keep a credit card or debit card due to their fear of getting hacked and often did not respond to legit emails because they thought these were scams.
In this digital world, it is impossible to operate without a credit or debit card or not respond to emails or access apps on mobiles. Being very close to our grandparents we could see their helplessness and soon realized that this was a braoder issue that needs to be addressed.
Our youth is being educated about cyber security issues at schools and universities but there are no education avenues for the elderly. We took it upon our selves to educate our grandparents and in doing so came up with the idea of Cybelderly.
Our mission is to educate elders on cyber issues, so that they can be informed digital consumers who operate without fear in this digital economy.
cybelderly.org 
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