Books for Bak Primary School

In our Easter Newsletter, we included a story about Mr Donifry, the Principle of Bak Primary School. Ryan also took a video of his short interview with Mr Donifrey, so we thought we’d upload it for anyone who may be interested to “meet” this bush-man who has a vision to improve his community at the grass-roots level through the education of the children!

Below is the story we included in our Easter Newsletter, and you can click on the picture below to water the video (1 min).

By supporting our work with MAF you are enabling books and teachers to reach some of the world’s most isolated communities so their children have a chance at a decent education!

Thank you.

School Library Books for Bak

Libraries around the world can quite often be taken for granted. Lots of school students would probably never even enter a library unless forced to by their teacher. However, in the remote communities of Papua New Guinea, if they are fortunate enough to have a school, a school library is a treasured privilege.

Ryan recently had the opportunity to help build up the school library at the remote community of Bak. The Principal of the Bak primary school applied through Australian Aid for a donation of library books. He received 24 boxes containing 1,000 books. But because Bak is a very remote community, the books only made it to the closest town which is 70 miles away over mountains and through jungle terrain with no roads. Ryan was able to fly the books to a village close to Bak in time for the new school year which started in February, then the boxes containing the books had to be hand carried over mountain footpaths into the next valley where Bak is located. For the school kids at Bak, these library books will be a treasured possession and will be a blessing to the students of today and tomorrow.

Thank you for helping to make this possible.