By Chisomo Kambandanga

Nkhata Bay, February 14, Mana: Mtetete Community Day Secondary School (CDSS) Head Teacher in Nkhata Bay, Sally Msiska has commended students from Vijle University in Denmark for donating 20 computers to the school through Climate Action Resilience for Malawi (CARMA).

In an interview Thursday after the official handover ceremony of the computers, Msiska said the school will now introduce computer lessons, which will enable learners to improve computer skills.

"Lack of computers was a very great challenge to us to introduce computer as a subject. We will immediately start offering the subject after having received the 20 computers. Our students will have hands-on experience helping them to excel in national examinations.  We are very grateful", she said.

She therefore appealed for support from well-wishers to help the school in constructing a computer laboratory.

"We are currently having 172 students, and we don’t have a computer laboratory. Let me appeal to well-wishers to help us construct a special computer laboratory as we have just currently improvised for that," she added.

Project Manager for CARMA Innocent Phiri said the organization requested the donation to bridge a technical gap in Information Communication Technology skills identified in most of the schools in the district.

"These computers have been donated by students who are on an education visit to Malawi. We requested it because we understand that if most students have computer skills, they can be exposed to various information that will help in various spheres of life.

He added that their goal is to reach out to more schools in Nkhata Bay, and they have also already donated the same to St Augustine CDSS in the district.

In her remarks Anna Grandt Nielsen, a teacher in computer skills communication, art and design who led the students from Denmark expressed optimism that the computers will ignite the interest of learners in computer courses and take part in the fight against climate change.

"These visits are crucial to our students as they have already started learning many things in Malawi which will help them to think globally and I am hopeful that through CARMA, this collaboration of students will continue," she added.