Both Group Village Head Mwandenga and the Headmaster Geoffrey Msowoya said the school has challenges in resources and staff houses and they expressed gratitude for the items.
 
Kangindwa School pupils expressed their joy through creative poem recitals, plays encouraging the fight against smuggling and songs.
 
The donations which were made by MRA Commissioner General Mr. Tom Gray Malata, also included 1,600 fruit and non-fruit tree seedlings. The CG and officials who attended the event planted some of the trees at the school and the other trees will be planted at Songwe Border Station premises including the surrounding area of Group Village Head Mwandenga under Traditional Authority Mwakawoko.
 
The occasion marked the inauguration of MRA’s 2017 tree planting exercise.
 
The Commissioner General thanked people Mwandenga and Timoti Villages for the support in customs collection and curbing smuggling.
 
“The good relationship that our officers enjoy with the people was evident last year when part of Songwe Border Station caught fire. The people around us did not sit idle and watch our offices engulfed in smoke. Men, women, boys and girls rushed to our rescue and put out the fire.
 
“Without the brave warriors of T/A Mwakawoko, colleagues under the Joint Border Committee and members of the business sector, we would have lost not only the building and all equipment inside it but we could have lost millions in revenue as well. It is for this reason that we pledged to find resources to come back here and say thank you,” he said.
 
The CG said the donation is in line with MRA’s Corporate Social Responsibility Policy which recognizes support to the education as it is very critical in the development of a community, region and a nation.
 
“I am excited that the pupils here will learn in a very conducive environment and it is our hope that they become useful citizen for Songwe, Karonga and the nation as a whole. As a tax collection body, we expect the students to be future compliant taxpayers.
 
“I urge pupils, teachers our chiefs and members of the community to take full responsibility in ensuring that these desks are well cared for. Our wish is to see many more students benefiting from them for years to come,” he said.

On the tree planting, the Commissioner General stressed that MRA is a people oriented organization and equally concerned with challenges emanating from environmental degradation and urged people to nurture the trees to growth.
 
“We are planting trees to provide the much needed vegetative cover to prevent soil erosion and other forms of environmental degradation. We are planting trees because we all desire to live in a fresh environment free from toxic matters in air, water and land. We are planting trees because we care about our people, communities and the country,” Mr Malata said.
 
The Malawi Revenue Authority has been involved in the National Tree Planting season for some time now. In 2015 MRA planted 5,000 trees in its stations, Msonkho House Head Offices and surrounding communities located across the country, while last year 1,400 trees were planted.