SBI donates IT equipment to St.Catherines Girls School

Nov 22, 2011

SBI international holdings AG, one of the major construction companies in Uganda has donated a fully-fledged computer classroom worth sh150m to St. Catherine Girls School of Kazo, in Kiruhura district.

By Darious Magara

SBI international holdings AG, one of the major construction companies in Uganda has donated a fully-fledged computer classroom worth sh150m to St. Catherine Girls School of Kazo, in Kiruhura district.

The Managing Director, Shay Cameo said the donation covers 13 modern laptops, a generator, furniture and an air-conditioned furnished classroom.

He said the donation is part of the company’s sustainability policy of their Israeli parent company Shikun & Binui, Arison Group which supports community development ventures.

“We as SBI are interested in the development of the Ugandan children and if they can acquire quality education where we have contributed, we become very happy,” he explained.

“We support local projects as part of giving back to the community that gives us business to build their capacity further and support their development agendas,” Cameo added.

He noted the company plans to hand over another fully-fledged computer classroom to a school in Mpigi district early next year.

Cameo said they each year inject sh250m in community projects and had contributed to a water project in Masaka at House of Hope, a local Non-Governmental Organization and construction of a block at Little Light Orphan School in Kampala.

The School headmistress Grace Tumuhimbise told New vision that they are very happy with the donation that will support students to fight computer illiteracy.

“The world is turning into a global village and computers and other Information technologies are at the forefront of this development. We greatly welcome this donation which is opening us to fit in the IT era,” Tumuhimbise said.  

The classroom will be commissioned later this week.

Cameo said in their last ten years of development work in Uganda’s road sector, they had invested in machinery and road equipment worth over sh285b.

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