School graduates 59 after starting from scratch in 2012

A SCHOOL in East Sepik which started from scratch in 2012 with no proper classroom and with students sitting on the ground to learn, staged its first grade 8 graduation recently.
Bugusu Primary School is located on the border of Maprik and Yangoru-Saussia districts and has students from five wards.
Speaking at the graduation ceremony, head teacher Elizabeth Maken said: “It was a struggle when the school started. No proper classrooms or teachers, students sitting on the ground to learn, travelling distances to get to school each day and enlisting our grade 8s to sit for the national examination this year.”
Maken told the 59 graduating students that they had witnessed the school’s hardship since the beginning.
”This school is here to stay. We have gone through all the trials that could destroy us and we have come out strong and we are still standing,” she said.
The school’s board of management chairman, Kami Minimalai, told students: “You are now challenged to continue to be disciplined and carry the good name of the school wherever you go from here.”