UNITED BANK FOR AFRICA (UBA BANK) DONATES LITERATURE BOOKS TO SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN KISARAWE DISTRICT

UBA Bank Tanzania Chief Operating Officer Flavia Kiyanga (left) hands over literature textbooks to Kisarawe District Commissioner Jokate Mwegelo over the weekend. The UBA Bank Tanzania through UBA Foundation donated literature textbooks to Kimani and Makurunge Secondary Schools in Kisarawe District, Coast Region aimed at improving the school’s student’s performances.

Kimani Secondary School students take a reading of literature books donated by UBA Bank Tanzania to the school. The UBA Bank Tanzania through UBA Foundation donated literature textbooks to Kimani and Makurunge Secondary Schools in Kisarawe District, Coast Region aimed at improving the school’s student’s performances.

UBA Bank Tanzania Head of Marketing and Corporate Communications, Brendansia Kileo distributes literature textbooks to Kimani Secondary School over the weekend. The UBA Bank Tanzania through UBA Foundation donated literature textbooks to Kimani and Makurunge Secondary Schools in Kisarawe District, Coast Region aimed at improving the school’s student’s performances.

UBA Bank Tanzania Chief Operating Officer Flavia Kiyanga speaks to students of Makurunge Secondary before handing over literature textbooks to the school. UBA Bank Tanzania through UBA Foundation donated literature textbooks to Kimani and Makurunge Secondary Schools in Kisarawe District Coast Region aimed improving academic performance to students.

Makurunge Secondary School students display literature textbooks donated by UBA Bank Tanzania. The UBA Bank Tanzania through UBA Foundation donated literature textbooks to Kimani and Makurunge Secondary Schools in Kisarawe District, Coast Region aimed at improving the school’s student’s performances.

Dar es Salaam, Monday 11 February 2019 - In efforts to support the government in offering quality education in secondary schools, UBA Tanzania through UBA Foundation donated Literature textbooks worth TZS 6,400,000 to Kimani and Makurunge Secondary Schools of Kisarawe District, Coast Region.

The donation of the books was received by the Makurunge Secondary School Head Teacher Hassan Ruheye and Kimani Secondary School Mika Bareri on behalf of the school management.

Speaking after receiving the books, the Makurunge Secondary School Head Teacher Hassan Ruheye said that it was important to recognize the efforts which are being made by private institutions like UBA Tanzania in supporting education sector in the country. “We all understand that our government agenda is on industrialization, but we cannot have industries without good performance and adequate teaching materials in our schools. These books will increase the ability our students in performing good in literature and also in other subjects and in return will reach the government goal on industrialization”, Ruheye said.

Ruheye added “I call upon UBA Tanzania and other stakeholders to continue supporting us in other areas of our school so that we can create a good environment for our students”.

On his part, UBA Bank Tanzania Chief Operating Officer Flavia Kiyanga said that the bank believes in a society were learners get their education on a good environment and schools with learning equipment’s like textbooks. On that case, it’s good to invest on our children’s education and that has been fulfilled by donating these books to Kimani and Makurunge Secondary Schools.

UBA Tanzania has for a long time been supporting the education sector in our country. For that reason, the Bank was recognized by Tanzania Education Authority in 2018 among others as an institution that supports learning, UBA Foundation through its Read Africa Initiative has invested on the African youth to promote learning and a reading culture by donating various literature books to schools in Africa. To achieve this, we have been working with various institutions and I must thank the government for their support as UBA Foundation has been successful, said Kiyanga.

Kiyanga added that English language has been one of the barriers for students to perform well in their final exams. By donating these literature textbooks, we are creating an environment for our students to develop a culture of reading for themselves. We trust that these books will empower these students to perform well in their subjects and also increase the number of students taking who will be performing well in the final exams, said Kiyanga adding that UBA Tanzania will continue supporting schools in the country in various areas aiming at building students for a bright future.

Speaking on behalf Kimani and Makurunge Secondary Schools, the Kisarawe District Secondary School education officer Patrick Gwivaha said the UBA donation has come at the right time as the schools has been facing shortage of various textbooks something which has been affecting the academic performance. I take this opportunity to promise that we will take proper care of these books for the advantage of us and the coming generation.

He added ‘the shortage of textbooks in our schools has been affecting us very much considering that the geographical location of our district that makes it difficult for well-wishers like UBA to reach us. We really thank UBA Bank Tanzania for their support!