Programme funds double classrooms

TWO new double classrooms have been constructed to cater for the shortage of classrooms at Kinjibi Primary School in Dei, Western Highlands, through the Grant Assistant for Grassroots Human Security Projects (GGP) Scheme.
The grant is funded by the Japanese government to assist non-governmental organisations and local public authorities to implement small-scale projects directly benefiting the people at grassroots level as well as contributing to socio-economic development.
The Japanese Embassy in January last year extended a grant worth K212,891 to Kinjibi Primary School for the construction of the two double classrooms.
Head of the economics section and first secretary of the embassy of Japan Satoshi Isono on Friday officially opened the two classrooms that would benefit the 515 students and 12 teachers of the primary school.
He said through the project, the Japanese government was pleased to support the PNG Government’s efforts to improve the education sector.
“I believe that it is a basic right for every child to receive primary education and that the proper infrastructure encourages more children to attend school,” Isono said.
“Education is not only a vital tool to acquire knowledge and skills but also an investment for future development.
“These classrooms are gifts from the government and people of Japan, please look after these classrooms well, so that they will not only benefit students now but many who will attend this school in the future,” he said.
He said GGP was contributing towards empowering the people through improved education and life skills and enhancing the level of service delivery and basic infrastructure targeted by Papua New Guinea’s Vision 2050.