Commissioning of new classrooms at Tupou High School, Tāpunisiliva Campus Featured
17 October, 2020. Her Royal Highness, Princess Salote Mafile’o Pilolevu Tuita was the Guest of Honour at the commissioning of new classrooms at Tupou High School, Tāpunisiliva Campus, Tongatapu.
The new building has three classrooms and a store room. The classrooms have a total area of 150m2 and can accommodate 75 – 90 students. This construction costs TOP844,745.00
This construction is under the Pacific Resilience Program (PREP) project led by the Ministry of Meteorology, Energy, Information, Disaster Management, Environment Climate Change and Communications (MEIDECC) and co-funded by the World Bank and the Australian Government.
The PREP project includes the retrofitting/repairing and reconstructing of school buildings which were damaged by Tropical Cyclone Gita that hit Tonga and ‘Eua in February 2018. There are 25 schools in the project; building 33 new buildings and repairing 10. It is a total of more than 110 classrooms in Tongatapu, ‘Eua and Vava’u, and cost approximately TOP$28 million.
The Deputy Principal, Mrs. Mokosia Katoa warmly welcomed the Guest of Honour and the guests. She expressed her great appreciation for availing their time and were present at the blessing and commissioning of the new classrooms. She was thankful for the assistance, which will definitely enhance education at Tapunisiliva.
The General Secretary for the Free Wesleyan Church of Tonga (FWCT), Rev. Dr. Tevita Koloa’ia Havea blessed the new classrooms and prayed, “May the Almighty bless these new classrooms so they can fruitfully produce good citizens, who will become beams of light in families, churches, and in Tonga.”
Mr. Paula Ma’u reported that, “This program includes school buildings that were damaged by Cyclone Gita that hit Tonga in February 2018. All constructions are co-funded by the World Bank and the Government of Australia, which is better, stronger, durable, and more resilient to adverse natural disasters such as cyclones and earthquakes.”
The designing and supervision of the construction were done by Cardno, an Australian Company, and the construction was done by a local contractor, the Ca’Bella Construction (Tonga) Limited.
