Samoa’s education focus on having quality teachers is receiving praise at the diplomatic level from the Japan’s ambassador to Samoa HE Terasawa Genichi.
The envoy said so at the handing over of the Manono-uta reconstructed school building last Friday, funded under Japan’s grant for grass-roots developments.
“Only quality teachers provide an excellent education for students,” Ambassador Terasawa said at the handing over ceremony.
“I was deeply impressed by the efforts of the Samoan government to focus its resources on projects for the capacity development of teachers.
“Here, I would like to reaffirm our continuous efforts to assist for the capacity development of teachers as well as improvement of educational environment.”
The new school building has 8 classrooms, a staff room, library and a computer lab, which funded at a cost of 153,476 USD equivalent to approximately 389,000 SAT.
Ambassador TERASAWA emphasized in his remarks, Japan prioritises its funding assistance sourced from the GGP that is in line with its official development assistance policy of promoting development at the grassroots level as well as the national strategy for Samoa, Strategy for Development of Samoa.
This programme is specially designed to address basic human needs, which include water supply, health, basic education and sanitary environment.
Since its inception in 1991, Japan funded 196 projects for the people of Samoa at a total value approximately 42m SAT.
The assistance epitomize Japan’s firm commitment to support the efforts of the Government of Samoa in achieving its priority goals through various sectors which are in need of improvement including quality education.