Students celebrate opening of new classroom

PUPILS from the Baini Primary School in interior Salamaua, Huon Gulf and Bulolo in Morobe, were excited with their new four-in-one double classrooms and three teachers’ houses.
The children from seven villages – Piabo, Meteng, Bayati, Yameng, Dewang, Segum and Tetek were taught in makeshift kunai thatched and semi-permanent classrooms previously.
The Bulolo district development authority funded the classrooms and teachers’ houses which MP Sam Basil and Watut LLG president Waka Daimon opened on Monday.
Head teacher Mark Koni said that most teachers vacated the school because of isolation.
However, through the Bulolo corporate education scholarship with Balob Teachers’ College, local teachers graduated and are teaching Grades Three to Eight.
Koni told Basil and Daimon that most teachers’ houses were infested with termites and needed permanent construction and replacement of makeshift classrooms.
Basil said he would like to see more improvements to school facilities.
He said education was the way forward for remote areas to develop human resources.
Basil also assured to initiate the Bulolo tertiary scholarship to enable students further education in some fields.