Remington donates to remote school

THE children of Viriolo School, a primary school located in a fishing village in Papua New Guinea, have had a
new dimension of life opened to them, thanks to Remington Communications.
The company heard through three of its staff who were former pupils of the school that the people of this community had worked for more than two years to rebuild Viriolo Elementary School, which was destroyed in a storm.
About 2,000 people live in the area, supporting themselves by fishing, and growing fruit and vegetables, and many pitched in to help.
The school’s 150 students, aged 5-12, have coped with the poor facilities since the village is so remote.
It is located three and a half hours out of Port Moresby.
Their plight went unnoticed by authorities.
Remington offered to donate K50,000 worth of computer equipment to the school to reward the people for their efforts.
Apart from limited TV reception in a few homes,  the village had never had computers or electronic access to the outside world.
Remington’s managing director, Ken Harvey said the company’s IT manager Landon Taureka was one of the three former pupils of the school.
Today, the students are using their new computers linked to a powerful Vsat dish, also supplied by Remington, to access both lessons and the web.
“We are in touch with them regularly, and their transition into this brand new world of computers is going
well.
“Children are amazingly adaptable and keen to adopt new things. We were very pleased to be able to help them after their amazing rebuilding effort,” Harvey said.