Work on the construction of the new Manam high school has already started at Potsdam care centre on the mainland of Bogia District last Friday.
The new high school will occupy 8.4 hectares of land. Yabu LLG President, Kenny Boli, says the school was initiated to accommodate Manam students and the host communities.
This is to address the limited number of spaces for students at the Holy Spirit High School.
Boli further noted that the construction of the new school was also due to too many clashes by different factions at Holy spirit high school.
Thus, the project was an initiative of Yabu LLG with a funding allocation of K50 thousand kina and support by the Bogia District Development Authority with an additional K100 thousand kina.
The new high school once completed will benefit close to 500 students.
Phase one of the project was community clearing, phase 2 was land scaping by Madang works department, phase 3 was survey and phase 4, construction.
The construction of the new high school is also a reminder to the PNG government’s continuous neglect on the internally displaced Manam islanders living in the carecentres.
It’s been 18 years since the major eruption that resulted in the evacuation of islanders from Manam to the carecentres on the mainland.
The internally displaced persons are still waiting on the PNG government to resettle them to Andarum in the hinterlands of Bogia District.
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