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Japan Assists Lomary Catholic Primary School with Three New Classrooms
Embargo: Friday, 3rd April 2009 – 11.00 a.m.
The Government of Japan continues to provide funding assistance for upgrading of basic school facilities around Fiji. Today, Lomary Catholic Primary School community witnessed the official handing-over of a new three classroom building block with sixty set of student desks and chairs, forty stools and two long tables for the library and toilet facility. The funding of this major project at Lomary School was made available through Japan’s Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects (GGP) programme.
The First Secretary at the Embassy of Japan, Mr. Tatsushi Matsuo represented the Ambassador of Japan, His Excellency Yutaka Yoshizawa at Lomary Catholic Primary School in Navua on Friday, 3rd April, 2009, at 11.00 a.m. to officially hand-over the new building complex that will empower the school with new classrooms conducive to teaching and learning environment.
Lomary Catholic Primary School was established in 1906 and had wooden buildings that deteriorated over the years. The new classroom block replaced the old building and thereby, provided a better learning facility to some 440 children attending the school. Lomary Catholic Primary located at Pacific harbour, is hopeful to provide an equal opportunity for learning to the children of Lomary and nearby villages through this timely assistance from the Government of Japan.
The Government of Japan, under the GGP scheme provided a grant of US$88,436.00 to the school to cover for the building materials and construction costs for the three classrooms, and furniture. Japan’s assistance to the school is in line with its Official Development Assistance (ODA) policy objective of prioritising projects that target the development of basic education facilities in Fiji. The Government of Japan anticipates assisting more grassroots project in Fiji in future.
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