Digicel Foundation gives to Chimbu school

 THE Ku Christian Integrated Lower Primary School in Chimbu last Friday became the 18th primary school in the country to benefit from the Digicel Foundation’s roll-out of permanent school infrastructure.  

The steel kit double classroom, developed at a cost of K86,000, is the first Digicel Foundation project to be completed in Kundiawa and will cater for 50 children. 

The facilities include office space, 20 new benches, two water tanks, two pit toilets and two bucket showers for female students.

It is the first time the school has received financial assistance from a donor.

The Ku Primary School is run by the Christian Life Centre church, which started three years ago, and is fully supported by the local community. 

Situated just outside Kundiawa town, the school has one bush material building that is divided into three classrooms. 

The church building is used to accommodate two more classes. 

There are 120 children in five classes from Prep to Grade 4 with five teachers. 

School board chairman Joe Kelly Bip said the  classroom had come at the right time as the student enrolment had been rapidly increasing because of the student’s good academic results. 

“This new facility will help cater for our new Grades 5 and 6 that we are planning to include next year,” he said. 

Digicel Foundation chief executive officer Marina van der Vlies said the Ku Christian Integrated Lower Primary School and community had shown “that they can be self-reliant by building their own bush material classrooms and the teacher’s houses”.

“We target and work with those communities that are self-reliant by providing them with better resources which will help them develop to become even stronger communities for the future,” she said.