Absa Kenya Foundation has donated textbooks worth KSh600,000 to Kisumu Day High School. The textbooks will boost learning in the institution located in Kisumu County.
The donation follows the newly launched foundation’s rollout of programmes focusing on four pillars: Entrepreneurship, education and skills, natural resource management, and health and humanitarian relief.
Absa Kenya has set aside KSh500m of its annual earnings to the new foundation.
Many students who pursue learning at the school were identified as mostly coming from humble backgrounds.
During the book presentation at the school, Charles Wokabi, Absa Bank’s Head of Sustainability and Corporate Affairs said, “The partnership with these schools will help the learners to deepen their skills as they prepare to enter the job market. We are glad to be here today and invest in them at this stage of their lives.”
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Wokabi said the bank is currently partnering with internet service providers to offer connectivity in schools where they have set up the computer laboratories.
School Principal Daniel Mwaturo said the initiative will enhance learning in the school.
“He who gives you books gives you knowledge, and he who has been given knowledge but keeps it away without using it; that knowledge is dead,’’ Mwaturo said.
He asked the students to make good use of the resources.
By Fredrick Odiero
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