Access Bank dishes out computers to ward secondary schools

Access Bank has donated 10 computers worth over 6m/-to Mugabe Secondary School in Dar es Salaam, as part of its strategy to sensitise application of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in schools.

Speaking during the handing over ceremony, the bank’s Marketing Officer, Mr Sijaona Simon said that his bank after a research, had discovered most ward secondary schools have no computers.

He noted that such discovery compelled Access Bank to introduce sustainable strategy of distributing computers to schools as sensitisation of use of computers in schools. According to Mr Simon, the bank has already donated computers to secondary schools of King’ong’o (Kimara), Tuangoma (Kigamboni), Mugabe and will soon donate the same to Tungi secondary school in Kigamboni.

He noted that Access Bank was established to support small entrepreneurs who had no access to financial institutions due to small capital. “These computers will ease teachers’ works as we’ve found out that in some schools even headmasters have no computers at all. We’ve decided in this era of ICT to give back our profits to our society, we want a student to graduate Form IV when she/he is computer literate,” he insisted.

The School’s Headmistress Ng’wigulu said that the computers would enable the school to establish computer classes. She said that the donation has come at the right time as it would help the students to learn ICT in this era of science and technology.

“The board of the school thanks Access Bank for this assistance and we ask the bank not to get tired of helping us as we face a lot of challenges, including shortage of classrooms and lack of fence/wall as we’ve been surrounded by bars in every corner,” Ms Ng’wigulu pleaded.

The headmistress added that the school had no even a single house for teachers and therefore it is not easy for the teachers to make close supervision of their students.