Over 32,000 students, teachers, staff to benefit from project

MORE than 32,000 students and teachers, including support staff in 29 schools across Morobe, will benefit from an integrated water sanitation and hygiene (Wash) in nutrition (Inwan) initiative the lukautim gutpla kai kai through the “Klin pasin” project.
The Australian government, through the Water for Women Fund, in support of the Covid-19 response and recovery, is co-funding the project.
The project works hand-in-hand with high schools and primary schools in Lae to strengthen agricultural education, provide nutritious meals to students and educate them on good nutrition.
It will address job loss and local food supply disruptions by increasing local food production and creating opportunities for local community members to work on school farms in partnership with the Lae city hands-up programme provides community workers for the project.
World Vision PNG Wash technical specialist Emmanuel Opoki said World Vision, at the request of Department of Foreign Affairs Trade, was working closely with the school garden steering committee to integrate Wash into the project.
Opoki said part of the scope of work was to have solar motorised water supply system at Omega Primary School as a model school before it was implemented at other schools.
“The detail work would include siting and drilling of one production well at Omega Primary School, installation of water pumps, solar panels, 18,000 litres of reservoir tanks and hand-washing stations at the school,” he said.