Secondary school opens two new classrooms

YEAR nine teachers and students of Grace Memorial Secondary School in Wau, Bulolo, Morobe, have taught and learnt through makeshift classrooms in their mess building over the last seven years, according to principal Zukua Koito.
The hardship and struggles came after their four-in-one classroom block burnt in 2015.
Last weekend, those difficulties were put aside after the school opened two new classrooms.
Koito said the classrooms cost K50,000 which was covered with a support grant from the office of Wau Bulolo mayor Willie Sine.
“Soon after the burning of the classrooms in 2015, two classes of grade nine students were using the mess building,” he said.
“Grace Memorial took its secondary school status in 2004.
“Then and up till now, it still lacks quality building infrastructures that a secondary school should have.”
Koito said the school was still progressing to get its building infrastructures up and that would take a while. He said with the completion of two classrooms now, 80 students and their teachers will progress well with their teaching and learning activities.
Sine said his financial assistance was granted after his observation of the school struggling to have proper and presentable learning place for the children.