Kiriwina Secondary school in the Milne Bay Province has been a secondary school for the 3rd year now but since getting upgraded to secondary school status, the school has been enrolling more students but there are not enough infrastructures to cater for the students.
School Principal, Mr. Cyril Tomodiwaona said that they currently don’t have specialized classrooms such as physics and chemistry labs for the students.
“We are a boarding school and we have over 100 girls staying in a dorm that is supposed to cater for only 60 girls.”
“Another problem we have is staff housing as we currently have 11 staff houses and 21 teachers at the school, so we don’t have enough houses for our teachers to live on the school premises.”
He said that the girls’ dormitory is important and so is staff housing; however, they do not have the funds to build these infrastructures.
He said that they have submitted requests for funds to assist the school at the district level and they are now just waiting for a response from the district administration. He added that they haven’t reached out to the local member yet.
They will only do so if they do not get a favourable response from the District Education Office to ask for funds to build infrastructures for the school. Meanwhile, Tomodiwaona said that the school has a teacher ceiling of 30 teacher, but they are unable to get any more teachers due to not enough staff houses.