Alotau resident Rebecca Kwayaila came up with the idea to start an Appeal for Cameron Secondary School after she learnt that the school had to send its’ boarding students home because they could not cater for them anymore.
“I live opposite the school and I was concerned about boarding students being told to become day students so I wanted to do something to help them out.”
“I created a Whatsapp group and facebook group for people to assist and donate in cash and kind for us to present to the school,” said Rebecca.
Rebecca has advised that she received overwhelming support from the community in Alotau.
Her family had started off the appeal by putting the first K1000 and together with contributions coming in from the other locals in the community, they have been able to raise over K3000 in cash.
Rebecca also reached out to Trukai Industries who responded to her and donated 50 bags of rice towards the appeal.
A few kind individuals within the Alotau community also contributed foodstuffs including yams and other garden produce.
Rebecca and her team of volunteers visited the school yesterday and presented the donations to the school.
The Deputy Principal – Academic, Ms Miriam Nawi thanked Rebecca and her team for the timely donations and said that the food items will greatly assist the school in feeding the students who are boarding at the school.
“I am blessed to have also received donations from families who don’t have children attending the school but have given because they care.”
“It is a blessing to know that such families do exist.”
Mrs Nawi also expressed her thanks to Rebecca and her family for coming up with the initiative for the appeal.
“We should have more people like her and family,” Ms Nawi said.