Students, staff and community help build new classroom

THE Inonda Adventist High School in Northern has a new double classroom that will ease overcrowding, thanks to the hard work of the students, staff and members of the community.
The classroom was built at a cost of K30,000, with the balance subsidised by students, staff and local landowners with free labour and resources.
Free logs were provided by landowners while the students and staff shouldered the milled timber from the bushes to the construction site.
The double classroom was opened on May 23 and dedicated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church general secretary for the Papua New Guinea Union Mission Pastor Leonard Sumatau.
Sumatau said all the systems in governance were not the problem but those who managed the systems were the problem.
“People make the system work; therefore, we must educate the right people to manage the system,” he said.
“Education must be holistic where God must be the first and priority, otherwise you will find yourself wondering around in the wilderness trying the find your purpose in life,” he said.
Inonda is one of the oldest Seventh-day Adventist schools in the province.
The school enrols students from elementary to grade 10.
Community leader Jean Parkop commended the school for producing some high-profile individuals in the country.