The NCBA Golf Series 2026 brought together golfers, customers, business leaders and partners in Arusha over the weekend, with the tournament combining competition with initiatives supporting education and environmental conservation.
The Arusha leg, held at Kili Golf in partnership with the Diplomatic Golf Tournament, was also used to raise funds towards school fees for students from low income families.
The event was attended by NCBA Group Managing Director and CEO John Gachora, NCBA Bank Tanzania Managing Director Alex Mziray and other senior officials and stakeholders. Beyond supporting the education initiative, NCBA will sponsor the overall winner to participate in the wider NCBA Golf Series, giving the golfer an opportunity to compete at a higher level.
Mziray said the partnership reflected the bank’s approach of using sport to create opportunities while supporting causes that benefit communities.
‘Golf gives us an opportunity to connect with our customers and partners, but its impact can go much further. Through this partnership, we are supporting education while creating an opportunity for golfing talent to progress,’ he said.
The Arusha tournament followed the opening Tanzania leg at Dar es Salaam Gymkhana and is part of the NCBA Golf Series being held across markets where the banking group operates.
The Tanzania series will culminate in Dar es Salaam, with qualifiers advancing to the NCBA Group Grand Finale scheduled for Nairobi at the end of November.
NCBA says the series is intended to provide a platform for competition while strengthening relationships among golfers, customers, partners and the wider community.
The initiative also ties in with the bank’s Ndoto Zako, Hatua Zetu campaign, which focuses on supporting customers and communities to turn their ambitions into tangible progress.
The bank’s community activities in Arusha continued the following day when Gachora, Mziray and the NCBA team joined stakeholders in a tree planting exercise at Kijenge Primary School.
The initiative forms part of NCBA’s target to plant and nurture 20,000 trees by December 2026 in Arusha, Mwanza, Dar es Salaam and Zanzibar. The programme is being implemented in collaboration with TEEMO and other stakeholders under the Change the Story, Badilisha Simulizi campaign.
At Kijenge Primary School, students were encouraged to take part in caring for the trees and promote environmental conservation within the school and their communities. The two activities highlighted the bank’s wider approach to community engagement, linking sport with education and environmental sustainability.
While the golf tournament created an opportunity for competition and supported an education cause, the tree planting initiative focused on creating a greener environment for future generations.