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Bank donates 30 computers to Dar school
2006-02-02 08:31:46
By Patrick Kisembo
Eurafrican Bank yesterday donated thirty computers worth 15m/-to Kisutu Girls’ Secondary School in Dar es Salaam.
Speaking to the school staff and students, the Eurafrican Bank Marketing and Customer Services Manager, Wasia Mushi, said the bank has offered the computers as part of elevating computer literacy rate among the students.
’’This will help to build and improve the standards to which students perform their daily computer studies,’’ said Mushi.
He said the computers would assist students to gather information from an assortment of raw data.
’’In today’s world, people interact, enhance knowledge, increase efficiency, and turn out to be groundbreaking innovators via computer knowledge,’’ he said.
Handing over the computers, the Bank’s Finance and Accounts Manager, Juliana Sweke said: ’’The bank believes that the computers will help students generate impressive results and will boost their enthusiasm, engagement and eventually empower them to function successfully in the future.’’
Stressing on the importance of computer knowledge to the students and staff, Sweke said, ’’We need to get rid of the obsolete ways of educating pupils, and thus I urge various entities to contribute to Tanzania’s educational system by providing necessary facilities that will help promote the quality education needed for the future.’’
She said the bank has a social responsibility to support community services projects for the improvement of the welfare of the people and the environment in which they operate.
On behalf of other students, the Assistant Headprefect, Warda Chande, said though computer knowledge is global, many Tanzanians are being left behind in their access of this knowledge due to expenses that they need to incur.
’’We still have problems in accessing these computers, though we are happy that different institutions have started showing interests in assisting students to obtain that knowledge,’’ Chande said.
Gladys Busyanya, the Headmistress of the school said the offer came at a proper time when the administration had decided to put emphasis on computer lesson through practical and direct participation of students and teachers.
’’These computers will easy our tasks as we shall be using them in preparing lessons,” she said.
She said the school previously had twenty computers only, which made few students to access computer lessons at a time.
Now we have fifty computers. We are sure that students and staff will benefit from these machines and I urge my colleagues who have not learned computers to do so in order to cope with the current development trend,’’ she said.
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