School gets sawmill to cut timber for new buildings

By ELIAS LARI
Lower Nebilyer Provincial High School in the Western Highlands has been given a sawmill by the provincial government to cut timber and build new infrastructure including classrooms and staff houses.
This school is one of the 26 high and secondary schools established by Governor Paias Wingti to promote quality education in the province.
Principal Nickson Miti, while thanking Wingti, said the sawmill would help with materials to complete classrooms and staff houses.
He said Lower Nebilyer was a new school established by Wingti and infrastructure development was very important.
He described the school as a “dream come true” for the people of Hap Wara, after years of being involved in tribal fighting and missing out on basic education.
Miti said the school needed staff houses and classrooms and the sawmill would help them to achieve this.
“With this sawmill, we will cut timber and start building staff houses and classrooms,” he said.
“I have a vision for this school, but without infrastructure, it won’t work out so I have to start doing something with what is given.”
Miti said education helped to improve the quality life for people and his staff were working hard to promote that.
Board chairman James Wama said their vision was to see the school developed with the support of the community.
He said the Hap Wara community had taken ownership of the school since it was established in 2016.
“We are thankful to Governor Paias Wingti for the school and the sawmill, which we will use to develop the school,” Wama said.
He said the school would prosper because the community was taking ownership.