Pioneer high school students receive new uniforms

 By ROBERT TIKI 

FIVE hundred pioneer students of Kwip Dau High School in Mul district, Western Highlands, have received a new set of uniforms. 

That is the first time for students to have received a set of uniform since the school was established in 2013. 

The uniforms with embroided with “All things are possible with God” was bought at a cost of K40,000 from Star Tailoring Company in Singapore. 

The uniforms were presented to students in the school recently. Headmaster John Woguba said it was the initiative of the school’s administration to boost students’ learning.

“What we are doing today is to motivate them to sit for the national examination,” he said.

“It is our priority to equip our students with necessary facilities so that they can have the courage to pursue their education,” he said.

Waguba said what they did was to give other schools to have a positive perception of their school.

He said it was a challenge for other schools that did not have uniforms to get theirs.

Woguba said he was working to develop the school because it was still at its infant stage. 

‘’We are still lacking of necessary facilities and infrastructure to keep the school going,” he said.

Meanwhile deputy headmaster Simon Koi thanked the school’s administration for the uniforms. 

Koi said that the administration was more transparent and accountable with the government subsidy free tuition fees funds. Koi said the school funds must always be put into good use. 

He said if nothing was done on the ground, then appropriate authorities would question the school’s administration.

“We have to appreciate the Government for the free education policy and justify our duties by developing infrastructure in the schools,” he said, adding that funds were being misused by heads of schools under the pretext of providing infrastructural development.

Meanwhile Koi has urged the Western Highlands Governor Paias Wingti and local MP Koi Trape to look into the improving infrastructure in the school to cater for the increasing number of students. 

He said the school was now facing space problem.