Press Release

NMB Bank and Halotel Partners for a Knowledge Empowerment Project to Government schools
 Enters into an agreement to provide computers and Internet connections to over 200
schools

Dar es Salaam, August 1, 2018 — NMB Bank PLC has partnered with Halotel Tanzania to provide
the best ICT services to government schools. The partnership seeks to provide computers and
internet connections to schools with the aim of improving ICT learning and teaching in both
primary and secondary schools.
Under the agreement, NMB Bank will continue providing computers to schools while Halotel
Tanzania will provide internet connections to help schools cope with the fast growing technology
and simplify learning.

The Partnership agreement is for two years where NMB Bank will provide over 350 computers to
100 schools with internet connection from Halotel. For the past 4 years, over 600 computers have
been distributed to schools with over 400 others to be handled in this financial year.

Speaking at the signing ceremony, NMB Bank’s Managing Director – Ineke Bussemaker said that
the bank is committed to using part of the profit the bank got to help communities in the country
through their Corporate Social Responsibility.

Ms Bussemaker said “For years, NMB through CSR initiatives have directed its focus on fostering
education access to local communities by donating school desks, construction of classrooms and
also supporting them with computers for ICT learning and teaching, this partnership signifies that
we are making steps ahead through technology”.

“Under this partnership of strength with Halotel, we will provide computers to more government
Schools and Halotel will connect them with internet. We will also look on the schools which
Halotel have already built the infrastructure for internet connection and we will provide
computers.” Said Ms Bussemaker.

Ms Bussemaker further said “for the year 2018/2019, we already have 350 computers to donate;
we believe they will make a big impact in learning ICT in schools and later cope with the changing
science and technology.
On his part, The Acting Managing Director of Halotel Tanzania – Nguyen Van Son said this is not
the first time for Halotel to support education sector in the country, the company has supported
several initiatives towards the development of education sector in Tanzania and have already
provided Education facilities like School desks, books, bags and connected free internet to more
than 417 Schools across the country.

Different from other similar initiatives, Halotel in collaboration with CoICT of the University of
Dar es Salaam have developed a learning platform called Halostudy
(http://www.halostudy.ac.tz/) with content of Science and Mathematics covering all subjects
from Form I to Form IV of the curriculum of secondary school of Tanzania. The developed content
has been integrated with multimedia elements such as videos, audio, sound and animations in
specific areas where content is difficulty to understand using text alone.

“We are very sure that this project will increase the desire towards the use of Halostudy Platform
to allow students and teachers access and utilize this platform for positive performance in their
studies and thus brings positive impacts in education sector. Halotel will invest more to facilitate
government schools with internet connection to improve ICT in teaching and learning “. Said Mr.
Son.

“This partnership is a clear demonstration of corporate companies teaming up to support the

country’s education sector while installing ICT technologies to play a role in teaching and learning
in government schools.” Added, Mr Son.

Integration of ICT in education into the idea of teaching-learning always places pedagogy over
technology. It is not only about using technology and being an expert on ICT but also making the
learning process more attractive, joyful and engaging for both teachers and the students. This
integration will help students to promote initiation, creativity, and critical thinking.

About NMB:

NMB Bank PLC is Tanzania’s leading retail bank, both in customer base and branch network. With
over 2.8 Million customers, about 226 branches and over 800 ATM’s, NMB is represented in more
than 98 percent of Tanzania’s districts. NMB serves individuals, micro and small enterprises as
well as larger businesses. NMB has a strong financial record, based on years of strong and stable
performance. NMB is listed at the Dar Es Salaam Stock Exchange. NMB’s largest shareholders are
its strategic partners Rabobank with a 34.9% share and the Government of Tanzania with a 31.9%
share.

For more information, contact:

Joseline Kamuhanda, NMB Bank Plc Head of Communication & Corporate Affairs

Email: Joseline.kamuhanda@nmbtz.com

About Halotel

Halotel is the brand name of Viettel Tanzania PLC, a member of Viettel Group. Viettel is the
leading telecom group in Vietnam with nearly USD 11 billion revenue in 2016. Apart from
Vietnam, Viettel has invested in telecommunications sector in 10 countries across 3 continents,
including; Cambodia, Laos, Timor Leste, Myanmar for Asia Mozambique, Cameroon, Burundi,
Tanzania for Africa and Haiti, Peru for America. We officially launched our services in Tanzania
on 15 Oct 2015, providing our mobile service across the country.

With a total value investment of 1 billion US dollars, after constructing and installing network
infrastructure in just one year, Halotel’s operations in Tanzania have already expanded services
to all 27 regions across rural and urban areas and brought the broadband mobile service more to
than 4,000 villages across the country which had never been connected before.

Halotel is in a partnership between the government of Vietnam and Tanzania, and therefore
Halotel will always abide by the governing laws of Tanzania for the investment to benefit both
countries and citizens.

For more information, please contacts:

Mhina S. Semwenda – Halotel Tanzania Head of Communication Department.

mhina@halotel.co.tz