Steamships supports Buk Bilong Pikinini’s Library and Learning Center at Pari village
10 September 2020
In a year with much disruption to children’s learning, Pari Elementary School will be able to open the doors to their brand-new Library Learning Centre on International Literacy Day.
Steamships is one of Buk bilong Pikinini’s long-term corporate partners and has decided to make a major investment in the children of Motu Koitabu villages by supporting them with their education.
This commitment represents a K2 million investment over the next five years.
The villages are in great need of educational programs to prepare young children for school. Four more Library Learning Centres, housing an amazing collection of books and educational materials, will be built at Moto Koitabu schools – like the first to be opened at Pari Elemenraty School.
Steamships will be sponsoring the operations, which includes delivery of BbPs highly efficient Early Childhood Literacy and Development program, internally trained Teacher-Librarians, books and educational materials.
The Library Learning Centres will be built over the next three years through a partnership with the NCDC, which will sponsor the construction of the centres through the support from Hon. Dadi Toka and the Motu Koita Assembly. Steamships has been supporting Buk bilong Pikinini with Library Learning Centres in Port Moresby, Lae and Goroka since 2009.
Buk bilong Pikinini will be celebrating Literacy Week 2020 with the theme “Merging traditional and digital learning”, which reflects BbP’s move to integrate digital learning into its curriculum from 2021. BbP’s Teacher-Librarians will receive training in digital skills, online platform learning, online child safety and basic coding to get them ready to deliver BbP’s new digital learning program to the enrolled children in 2021.
“Our children are our future, and the literacy programs that are being put in place by Buk bilong Pikinini, provide young Papua New Guinean boys and girls with a wonderful platform from which to launch their learning journey. Steamships is proud to be a long term supporter of this aspect of nation building, and we applaud the MKA, for partnering in this initiative, and backing the aspirations of the Motu and Koitabu people," said Rupert Bray; Chief Operating Officer of Steamships.