Famous Tobacco Association of Malawi donated learning materials to schools

Tobacco Malawi News Agency reported, according to compile November 13, Katema Senior Chief Mponda activities held in the region, famous Tobacco Association of Malawi (TAMA)) to three primary schools Mangochi donation worth one million Kwacha Charles learning materials.

In accepting the donation of learning materials Malawi News agency interview, Garry Kachifumbu famous Tobacco Association of Malawi senior manager, said the three elementary schools donated 10,000 exercise books, is to help students to study harder, because they have the necessary learning materials.

He said that, in addition, the company is committed to improving the quality of education through efforts to support government action to back so that they can carry out social business activities.

Kachifumbu said: “We will be part of the profits obtained in the tobacco industry back to us to serve the community, it is our corporate social responsibility of school-age children are the center of our business, because only an educated society to continue. promote the development process of the country. ”

He said: “We do all of this is based on the conditions that currently receive funding from those children so that we can carry out business activities in farming families.” He said, adding that this gesture is to express gratitude to the company for the quarter just ended One way of feeling.

At the same event, Deputy Minister of Education Mangochi district Joe Magombo thanked donors famous Tobacco Association, pointed to alleviate the challenges still a long way from the education sector faces a shortage of teaching materials, including including. On the other hand, Magombo said the exercise will inspire those learners who benefited stay in school, thereby reducing the increasingly high dropout rates, especially girls dropout rate.

“Most students lack certain basic learning materials as an excuse to drop out of school and the change works, this donation will directly address this issue.”

Magombo said: “We hope students can now directly back to the classroom, because they do not have any reason to leave school in which other three schools will improve the child’s overall enrollment..”

Magombo further said that the village most parents do not have to buy your child a pen or a notebook, which forced the children had to stay at home. He said that this situation leads to a high rate of illiteracy in this country.

Schools benefit from this donation are: Namisi school received a 4000 notebook, Ntinjitinji school accepted the 2000 operations of this, there Milambe school accepted the 4000 book.

Tobacco growers association to buy the famous golden leaf is called the major foreign exchange earning crop in Malawi, and then grinding these tobacco processing and export.