![]() Students at the remote Kikori Secondary School in the Gulf province yesterday received 10 new computers donated by the Mineral Resources Development Company (MRDC). The students were promised the computers when MRDC Managing Director Mr Augustine Mano visited the school on September 17, 2020. Setting education as a top priority for project impacted areas, Mr Mano visited Kikori and Omati areas to establish what MRDC and its subsidiaries need to do to upgrade school infrastructure such as classrooms and teachers houses and deliver learning equipment. Apart from rundown classrooms and dormitories, and shortages of teachers’ houses, Mr Mano learned that students at Kikori Secondary had no computers to assist them learn. On Tuesday, October 13, 2020, a team from MRDC arrived at the school with 10 computer sets and a printer. The students and teachers wasted no time in removing the old one donated many years ago by Bishop Brothers and Oil Search which had become disused, and set up the new ones in the classroom used for computer lessons. The School’s Board Chairman Mr Joshua Robert thanked MRDC for the much needed learning equipment. “Education nowadays has changed. Schools are using computers and learning off the internet. We do not want our children to be left behind. “We want them to be as IT literate as any school aged child in other more advanced schools in the country. I’m so grateful for this donation by MRDC,” Mr Robert said. Kikori District Education Coordinator Mr Nelson Bauno said the school was sandwhiched between an oil, and now a gas pipeline, yet it received little help from anyone during the oil years. “Our children were forgotten during the oil years. They have missed out. But we are grateful for this donation by MRDC. Both our students and teachers need computers. We are glad that there is a commitment for more to come,” Mr Bauno said. Representing the students, Rebecca Sobam said she was so happy the school was receiving new computers sets. She said as a grade 12 student, she would be sitting for her final exam, and leaving in a few weeks time, but she was proud that those she was leaving behind would have full use of the computers to improve their learning. “We have been taking lessons on computing in theory only because we didn’t have computers to do practical lessons. With these computers, we will have practical lessons. We (Grade 12s) don’t have long to go, but we will leave with a happy heart because our juniors will have full use of these computers. “I want to thank MRDC for these computers. It is such a big help for us,” Ms. Sobam, of Karatti village in East Kikori said. The Kikori Secondary School was formally established in 1998, built by Chevron Niugini through the tax credit scheme. It began enrolling students as a high school much earlier than that, taking students from East and West Kikori, and even Erave and Kutubu in the nearby Southern highlands province. Next : PNG Education Departments Issues Warning On Cheating In National Examinations Comments are closed.
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