Petroleum Importers Ltd donates books to Chifunga Community Day Secondary School
Petroleum Importers Limited (PIL), the major fuel importer has donated350 books to Chifunga Community Day Secondary in Mwanza district worth K1 million.
PIL set aside K50 million this year to support for education and health sector.
Speaking during the handover PIL General Manager Enwell Kadango said the company has seen befitting to assist the school with the learning and teaching materials.
“We have partnered with Ministry of Education such that we have seen a few CDSS benefiting from the donations that we are making. We believe with this donation various classes at Chifunga CDSS will benefit and enable the the students to excel in their education,” said Kadango.
Kadango said PIL recognize education as a backbone of country’s socio-economic development
“We have identified health and education sectors as our focus area to assist this year among others will be donating desks to different Community Day Secondary Schools in all education division across the country. We do recognize this noble task of the education which requires a lot of dedication on the part of teachers invarious schools that is why PIL thought it is worthwhile to put a smile on these hardworking students and teachers,” said Kadango.
He called other private sector to continue providing assistance to the public facilities.
“We know there are many other companies and organizations that are assisting in one way or another with various materials. We believe together we can mount a big force that would surely fill this gap because government alone may not afford to assist everyone,” he said.
In his remarks Chifunga CDSS Head Teacher Gresham Bwanalithanked PIL for the assistance which he said will go a long way in improving the teaching and learningat the school.
“We are grateful to PIL for this donation of books because since the introduction of new syllabus the school had shortage of books and this gesture is timely to the,” said Bwanali.
Opened in 1987, Chifunga CDSS School has an enrollment of 272 students.
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There is something wrong here. First of all where does PIL get the MK50,000,000 to donate? Must be from the money you and I pay for petrol or diesel. Did PIL ask you if they could use the money that you pay in order to donate it. You see you have NO CHOICE in this matter, if you buy fuel, it has to be imported through PIL and that what makes this wrong because PIL are adding unwanted costs to your fuel bill in order to give that money away. My suggesting is, PIL please just import the fuel and… Read more »