The Siumu district held a special prayer service yesterday to bless and mark the opening of their new primary school building, replacing facilities damaged during Cyclone Evan.
Chairman of the School Committee, Asuao L Mauga, said the service was conducted by Rev. Tu’ia Peseta.
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“Groundbreaking was already done at Mulinu’u and from what we believe we need our own special service on our land so that everyone in our district will come together and witness the beginning of our new school building now under construction,” Asuao said.
“It was in 2010 that Siumu made the request to the government and they approved it in2011, and because there were conditions that they were working on that is why it took us years to wait.”
“We finally made it and everyone is really excited.”
The approximate cost of this new school building is $5million with the construction carried out over 18 months by Chinese Company, Hunan Corporation.
He said that the district of Siumu is looking forward to havingbrighter generations of tomorrow to help develop family, churches and the country.
School Secretary Utai Ve’a Leitupo thanked the government of Samoa and China for their assistance so that their young ones can get a good education.
“Having a good education is very vital in today’s world and has always been, there are numerous amounts of reasons and benefits.”
“In my understanding, education basically decides the outcome of their life and decides the outcome of life, because how educated they are controls the decision of tomorrow.”
“When we have good school building we will have better education, today was a day that people of Siumu will always remember.”
Siumu Primary School was one of the government schools affected by Cyclone Evan in 2012, and since then they have been using village houses and the Congregational Christian Church of Samoa hall at Sa’aga for the school.
Employees of Hunan Constructions also blessed the site according to Chinese traditions.
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