Wawin National High appeals for contributions for library

WAWIN National High School in Morobe is in desperate need of books to fill up its library shelves.
The school’s administration has admitted that it now has a resource centre which could not be fully utilised because there were hardly any books on its shelves.
“It has been that way ever since the school started 10 years ago,” school principal Pakiam Arulappar said. 
He said what was worrying was that students did not have access to the right books to help them with their studies and incoming students would be in the same boat.
Arulappar said Wawin had been categorised as a school of excellence along with Aiyura, Kerevat, Passam, Sogeri, Port Moresby National High and Kabiufa Secondary, and would begin its enrolment in next week.
The resource centre, or the library, would be of great help to the students to enhance their learning and improve their academic results.
Resource materials were either lacking or outdated, including encyclopedias, works of fiction and journals and periodicals.
Arulappar said their calls to the government on numerous occasions for assistance had fallen on deaf ears.
Not deterred, the school has embarked on staging a series of fundraising drives to buy the reading materials. Their first drive is to call on former students and teachers to make donations in cash and kind.
This would be followed by a corporate dinner at the Melanesian Hotel in Lae on Aug 14 where tickets are going for K100 per person and K1,000 for a corporate table.
The school hopes to celebrate its 10th anniversary celebration on its annual cultural day to be held at the school grounds on Aug 27.
The celebration is appropriately named, “reunion and thanks giving day”.
Wawin lies below the Atzera ridges, overlooking in the Leron plains in Markham Valley, about 100km west of Lae.
It enrols more than 70% of students from feeder high schools in Morobe while the rest come from other parts of the country.