A small primary school in the remote Green River LLG in West Sepik Province has received a major boost after local MP and PNG’s Opposition Leader, Belden Namah visited the area.
Hogru Primary School which consists of 163 students from Elementary to Grade Seven. Recently, the school had one of its classrooms blown away by strong winds and continuous rains in the area.
Recently, Local leader Belden Namah visited Hogru and spent two nights there where he presented the school with K30,000.
With the assistance of community members, the classroom that was destroyed by strong winds was reconstructed within two days.
Hogru Primary School’s headmaster, Jerry Homai, says despite many challenges the school faces every year, the community’s efforts in keeping the school year going has kept them thus far. He says, Hogru Primary School is in dire need of an extra teacher as the school currently has only three teachers which will not be enough to support the next year’s pioneer intake of grade eights.
“We have one teacher for elementary school and two others teach multi-grades from grades one to seven. We have already applied for another teacher for next year and we are hoping the education department acknowledge our request,” said Mr Homai.
During this week, local MP Belden Namah accompanied by his District officials was ferried into the area by Heli Solutions to present a K70, 000 cheque to Hogru Primary School to upgrade its classrooms to a permanent standard.
Namah said Hogru has been cut off since 1964 after the arrival of missionaries but soon like many other areas in the Green River Rural LLG will open up and access services to in Vanimo town.