New ride helps students get to school

By DOROTHY MARK
A GROUP of students in Madang who spend up to three hours a day walking to and from school are relieved they have been given a truck.
The truck, to pick them up in the morning and drop them off after classes, was handed over to the Sausi High School by Usino-Bundi MP Jimmy Uguro last Saturday.
School principal David Gall said students living at the Usino junction, Walium and Kesewai had to walk for up to three hours to attend classes.
The school had to send them home by 2.30pm to allow them to reach home before dark.
Gall said the truck was a blessing from God given to assist the students in their education.
The primary school was recently elevated to high school but still needs more facilities and resources to meet the high school requirements.
“We need boarding facilities to accommodate students living far and walking every day to and from school,” he said.
Uguro said it was unfair on the students when classes had to be cut back because they had to walk back home. He plans to buy another vehicle to help in the transportation of the students. Uguro said the Government had committed K1 million to equip the high school.
“You need to have science lab, good classrooms, libraries and other facilities high schools should have,” he said.