1 day Ago By Moffat Mamu
THE new year 2025 will see a newly furnished classroom handed over to the good People of the Vaekau Ward by the Temotu Provincial Government. The Vaekau Ward is composed of strings of Islands which include Matema, Pileni, Nukapu, Nupani, Makalumu and Nifiloli. The children in this ward and their teachers had been studying and working in deteriorating classes for quite a good number of years.
However, this will come to end now with the support of Solomon Islands Government and the World Bank through the Provincial Capacity Development Fund. The Nipimanu Primary School Project is in near completion stage. After a very long delay, the Nipimanu Primary school Project is finally in its finishing stage.
The Provincial Engineer Jeffery Waikari confirmed that 90 per-cent of the work is quite done with, the final work now is paintings. The Nipimanu Primary School is a Project identified by the Ward Development Committee of the Vaekau Ward and was included in the Provincial Government three-year rolling Plan by the TPG Planning Office. The Nipimanu Primary School Project was co-funded by the Solomon Islands Government’s Provincial Capacity Development Fund and the World Bank through the Integrated Economic Development and Community Resilience (IEDCR), a project within the Ministry of Provincial Government and Institutional Strengthening.
The Primary school was 70 per-cent funded by the Solomon Islands Government and 30 per-cent funded by the IEDCR PCDF. The Nipimanu Primary School Project will be one of the key Project implemented by the Temotu Provincial Government in the 2023-2024 Financial Year. The Temotu Provincial Government had invested a lot in ensuring the completion of this project on the urgency that this is the only school that serves the small Islands of Vaekau apart from the Pileni Primary School.
Provincial Secretary Casper Tuplo expressed delight over the progress. “The contribution of the IEDCR to the completion of the Project is timely indeed and had relived the Provincial Government a lot on the burden of completing the Nipimanu Project.” The completion of the Nipimanu Primary School will address the demand for quality facility for Education in the Vaekau Ward.
The Nipimanu Primary School Project is a success story for the People of the Vaekau Ward, the Temotu Provincial Government, the Solomon Islands Government and the World Bank through the IEDCR..
