By Alfred Manjawira
BLANTYRE-(MaraviPost)-The country’s local charity group Help a Child Foundation on Friday, January 22, 2021 rescued Amosi Siwepu a second Year year engineering student at the polytechnic with an accommodation balance that made him fail to view his end of the examination results as per conditions of the University
The support comes after social media this week was awash with reports of the student in question appealing to the public for immediate help failing which would result him absolute blank about his future at the university.
Help a Child Foundation’s Chief Executive Officer Ernest Luhanga said that the organisation saw the message and thought of coming in to help.
Luhanga added that as one way of appreciating the hardworking students who are doing well in their education but are financially handicapped hence the support.
“When we saw the message of Mavuto failing to settle his balance with the university, we thought of coming in to his rescue and we have so far sorted the issue with the school.
“It is sad that many University students are forced to withdraw from different colleges in the country because they cannot afford school fees and some academic requirements,” he said.
Luhanga added, “This is the reason HCF was born and we are not stopping at Amosi. We are focusing to do more and bring an impact not only to University students but to secondary school students as well, we believe that government alone cannot do everything and it is up to us as citizen of the country to hold hands in attaining the educated nation.
The Dean of Engineering students at the Polytechnic Gertrude Sitolo Banda who officially received the MK70,000 donation expressed gratitude over the development saying this is timely
Child care Foundation is a newly formed and registered organization whose members are (but not limited to) the Polytechnic Alumni who did their final year of Bachelor of Accountancy in 2020.
The group is known to be inspired by the need of helping University students upon experiencing the increasing number of needy students at the polytechnic and other constituent colleges of the University of Malawi during their stay at Poly as students