Aseri Katanga, the Chairman of C4A’s Board of Trustees, has recently toured several districts of Tanzania visiting schools and projects that Computers 4 Africa has supported over the past two years.
In Mbeya, Aseri visited Kisanji University and St Francis’ Secondary School. The University has recently opened a new IT department thanks to Computers 4 Africa’s donors (that means you!) who have enabled us to supply all of the University’s 100 refurbished computers.
In Tukuyu, Aseri was given the freedom of the city after giving Mwaikambo Vocational Training Centre equipment donated though Computers 4 Africa including PCs, typewriters, sewing machines and textbooks. He also visited Mwakaleri secondary school in Tukuyu, as well as the Mkombozi group in Kyela district near the border with Malawi.
Aseri also visited Peramino and St Bernards secondary schools in the Songea district, as well as the Vikoba womens’ group. Computers 4 Africa has given them 65 PCs and 5 diploma scholarships for their students to train as IT teachers with C4A Partners Desktop Computer Technology, an IT training school in Dar Es Salaam. The students will then go back to Songea to teach IT to other students and help to maintain the computers.
In the last month, 76 Computers 4 Africa PCs have been donated to Government secondary schools in Bukoba and the surrounding villages, including 30 PCs donated by Computers 4 Africa partners the Travis Perkins Group which were installed in Rugambwa Girls Secondary School.
4 PCs have also been donated to Mtwara Regional Library for community use, and Aseri is sending over six thousand science textbooks to schools in Tanzania through School Aid UK next week.
In other news, the UK’s High Commissioner for Tanzania, His Eminence Philip Parham, has accepted Aseri’s invitation to visit some of C4A’s projects in Tanzania: Aseri is currently organising the visit.
