Church embraces early childhood learning, development

By ROSELYN ELLISON
A CHURCH in East New Britain has embraced early learning childhood development.
Greater Heights Early Childhood Destiny School was officially launched last Friday at Tanaka village in the Raluana local level government (LLG), Kokopo.
The school was initiated by Greater Heights Governing church pastor Gershon Passingan and comes under Covenant Ministry International. ENB deputy governor and Bitapaka LLG president Cosmas Bauk, who officiated at the ceremony, said the province and the rest of the country faced many challenges and ensuring more children were educated well was the key to having a better society.
He said moral values and good ethics were almost non-existent in the community and how people interacted with one another and promoting these values among the young were crucial. “If our families, province and country want to see positive changes we have to start at the right place,” he said.
Bauke said that place was in education and teaching from an early age.
Bauk said improving the education was paramount to achieving the goal of a prosperous society.
ENB elementary and early childhood coordinator Ludwina Liu said the provincial education division would support the new school.
Liu said early childhood education was not part of the government’s plan and the ENB division of education needed to develop policies to accommodate early childhood learning into education system when elementary schools were phased out in the country.
“The school at Greater Heights is leading the way in East New Britain in building an early learning.”