The Mapemba family, through the Gogo Falesi Mapemba Community Outreach, has donated 150 textbooks worth about K8 million to Nkhoma College of Nursing.

Speaking after presenting the textbooks on Saturday, Gogo Family Mapemba Community Outreach director Bishop Richard Kwatiwani said the family wants to honour the late Mapemba’s wishes to donate to the school.

He said: “She wished to buy a bell for Chimwala Church of Central Africa Presbyterian to help people keep time for church and other activities and we donated one valued at about K7 million in 2021.

“Her other wish was to build a health facility which could offer free treatment or a small fee, but since we cannot build that now, we thought of supporting the health sector through these books.”

“The donation was meant to continue the legacy of Gogo Falesi Mapemba, who died tragically in a fire accident a few years ago,” he said.

Nkhoma College of Nursing principal Rose Mazengera expressed gratitude to the family, saying the donated textbooks are the latest, which the institution could not afford.

“The college is supposed to buy textbooks from the funds collected as fees and other income-generating activities because the synod handles administrative costs and salaries,” she said.

Nkhoma Synod general secretary the Reverend Vascal Kachipapa echoed Mazengera’s remarks, saying: “The books are relevant to the studies at the nursing college. It is one thing to have infrastructure and good lecturers and another to have the materials.”

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