The Mul Baiyer district administration have been committed to fund the Paglum Adventist Secondary School K110,000.
The pledge to the school was made by the local MP Jacob Maki during the school graduation in Mount Hagen on Sunday.
Mr Maki as the guest speaker, when commenting on the state of the school facility, said with the commitment locked in by the district administration, the school should start planning on how they will spend the promised funds on much needed renovation of the school facility.
The K100,000 is for the school to pay for the necessary materials and manpower that is needed to re-model the school and the K10,000 is for the students to use for their needs.
Mr Jacob Maki, local MP
Along with the commitment, Mr Maki gifted the school with several boxes of the newly published biography of Seven Day Raim by Tiri Kuimbakul.
The book is a biography of one man who basically was the first man to bring the Adventist message to the Mul Baiyer district and supported the work in those early days.
This book will be at the school library and it will be a lesson to the students on how a person can succeed with God by putting the Lord first, just as Papa Raim has.
And since this school is an Adventist mission run school, it will do well to have Adventist literature in the library so the students can be spiritually fed as well as being mentally satisfied.
Maki
Mr Maki further stressed to the students as well as to their parents to never give up on education no matter the cost.
Do not consider yourself to be a failure when your offer doesn’t come. Upgrade and try again. Education never stops unless you give up on it.
Mr Jacob Maki
Mr Maki further urged students to not associate with thugs but be focused as they wait for their examination results at the end of the year.
Meanwhile, David Raim, who was also a guest at the graduation, also pledged K200,000 from his Highlands Mobile Company towards the maintenance of the school.