School needs restroom for classes to resume

 AS the Chairman of the Parents and Citizens of the Sevese Morea Elementary School in the National Capital District, I would like to stress my disappointment to all stakeholders involved in ensuring our children are given the right to an education.

The school has had its fair share of problems in the last two years, first the in house fighting over the board of management chairman post which had all sorts of twists and turns resulting with a decommissioned chairman refusing to accept his decommissioning and siding with the TFF manager to put a freeze on the schools school account for the whole of 2014 depriving the students and teachers of learning materials and carrying out classes, since the P&C and BOM have elected a new BOM chairman and still having issues with the decommissioned chairman.

The school has been closed for the better of term 2 and all most all of term one  as the school was shut down by the health authorities for not having a functional restroom facility.

Without the tuition fee free (TFF) funding to do any maintenance the school is basically crippled, last year the school through its new BOM chairman was fortnunate to secure assistance from Digicel PNG Foundation in the form of refurbishment of the restroom facility and building of a new building block.

Since the ground breaking ceremony nothing has happened as the building board have yet to approve for works to go ahead, I am appealing to the NCDC Building Board to get things going so that work can begin.

 I am also appealing to NCD Governor Hon Powes Parkop, who was present at the Digicel PNG ground breaking ceremony, and the Member for Moresby South and Minister for Sports Hon Justin Tkatchenko to at least help with the refurbishing of the restroom facilities so our children can return to their academic year or  will have to repeat next year.

Our Government is preaching about the welfare of our children and how education is vital to the development of this nation yet fixing a restroom facility so that 500 plus schoolies can return to school seem like the hardest thing to do.

Bagelo Ben Solien

P&C Chairman – Sevese Morea Elementary School