Thirty-five Grade 12 students graduate from FODE college

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The National, Monday December 2nd, 2013

 THIRTY-FIVE students graduated with Grade 12 qualifications at the Kanampa Flexible, Open and Distance Education (FODE) Centre in Kainantu, Eastern Highlands.

The graduation created history for the centre when it witnessed the first-ever Grade 12 graduation.

Centre coordinator Vincent Aikebuse said they started with nothing, no proper classroom and desks, no printing and photocopying equipment, but with determination, commitment and assistance from the parents, students and many good people, his FODE Centre can now graduate its first Grade 12 students.

Eastern Highlands deputy governor Elvis Ayahuo Morris, who at the graduation presented K20,000 to the FODE Centre to help build its facilities and put in place necessary equipments for future enrolments. 

Aikebuse said such assistance would enable the centre to enrol more students who fall out of the normal school system. 

Bonty Crushy, a local young man from Kanampa Village, who after dropping out of Grade 10, went through FODE to continue his education and ended up graduating with a Masters from a university in New Zealand last year, was the guest of honour at the graduation. 

Crushy encouraged the graduating students and said: “Never give up, keep trying and you’ll get somewhere.”