Africa-Press – Tanzania. STUDENTS are reaping benefits of partnership between their schools and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the apex private sector memberbased organisation that advocates for the growth and competitiveness of the horticultural sector – TAHA.
The students from Shepherds Schools in Arusha region have been getting support from TAHA in agricultural activities, running demonstration plots with different crops, with a special target in horticultural products.
In furthering the partnership, UNDP through TAHA, has provided the Shepherds Schools at Manyire village, Mlangarini ward with 10 desktop computers so as to have the students go with science and technology in learning different skills as well as in communication.
Handing over the computers to schools’ management, TAHA Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Dr Jacqueline Mkindi said they partnered with UNDP to work from the base at school levels so that children grow learning and later come to master horticultural and general agricultural activities.
Dr Mkindi noted that TAHA would be behind the students to ensure they excel in agriculture, health and science so that, as they go to higher learning institutions and beyond, are already with sufficient knowledge and can get self-employment. TAHA will be reaching out to students in different schools to instill in them the needed knowledge, she further noted.. She said the computer support to the school was a fruit of partnership between UNDP and TAHA on one hand but on the other was the manifestation of good work between the latter and Shepherds Schools.
She hailed students and teachers for working hard to the extent that UNDP saw it wise to offer them the computers so that they carry forward the work they had started before and it was chosen because it proved to possess something additional.
“You are doing great, keep it up. We thank the UNDP for honoring the pledge and now we have the computers for the students. Why Shepherds? It is because they have demonstrated they have something additional; building young men and women of Tanzania as great leaders, business persons, entrepreneurs of tomorrow with technology in computers,” said Dr Mkindi.
She handed the computers to Shepherds Schools Manager and Founder, Ms Lucy Kamptoni who said the school now would have 22 computers that were being used to teach literacy on that front, adding that she sees the future opening up more job opportunities.
