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Two Ministry of Education teams leave for the cyclone-devastated Lau group in Fiji today taking school supplies for students and aiming to see displaced teachers helped back on their feet.
Minister for Education Filipe Bole said today that the ministry’s priority now is for students to begin their classes, for which they need basic school items.
The teams will supply schools with temporary shelters/tarpaulins, water containers, textbooks and stationery. Stationery supplies include exercise books, pens, pencils, rulers and erasers.
Bole also said the ministry understands “the trauma that our teachers in the Lau group have gone through as this is not an easy time for them”.
”Ministry officials will hold talks with teachers to find out how their families were affected by the cyclone and will discuss ways in which the ministry can assist them,” he said.
”At such a critical time as this, these teachers need our support and words of comfort and encouragement so that life will return to normal and education to resume with ease - this is also what our officials will carry out, whilst there.”
Northern and central Lau are the worst affected by Cyclone Tomas, initial assessments have shown.
