The National Bank of Malawi (NBM) plc managers’ spouses donated various school items to Senga Bay Primary school in Salima rural worth MK2.5 million to aid and support their learning.

The donation was made at the bank’s annual strategy conference which was held at Salima to make the donation at the rural school and motivate the pupils. The donation also involved a word of motivation to the girl child, as from Rachel Kawawa Chief Risk Officer at Nedbank Malawi and wife to NBM Chief Executive Officer Macfussy Kawawa and Edith Jiya, Chief Executive Officer for Old Mutual Malawi group and wife to NBM plc General Manager Harold Jiya.

Head Teacher for the school Mrs Chigwesere, commended NBM plc for the donation and added that they lack a lot of things like a fence to enhance security since it is located in the middle of the village. Present at the ceremony was Group Village Headman Dalankwanda who also advised young girls not to rush for marriages but stay in school and excel and be ‘like these bosses you are seeing today’.