Papua New Guinea

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Papua New Guinea

• Land of the Unexpected

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Over 800 distinct languages

• Most students at Fugwa Primary School can speak
  at least 3 languages fluently.
• The average literacy rate for the Fugwa area is
  30 for males, and 20 for women

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School in PNG

• Elementary Grades K-2, starts in the local
  language and by the end of 2 is theoretically all
  in English
• Primary Grades 3-8, all in English. All grade
  8 students are tested and only the students in
  the top percentiles are allowed to continue on.

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School in PNG

• High School Grades 9-10, all in English. For
  Fugwa students this usually means boarding
  school. Students are tested again at the end of
  grade 10 and very few go on.
• National High School Grades 11-12. Very few
  students from Fugwa will get this far. 12th
  graders are tested again and only the very top
  get accepted into university.

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Average Cash Income at Fugwa

• K20 per year
• Less than 7 per year
• School fees for Fugwa primary? K30
• About 10 per year

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How YOU can help

• Norris Middle School has chosen to form a
  partnership with Fugwa Primary School, focusing
  on grades 6-8.
• You can build a back-to-school supply kit for a
  student at Fugwa.
• These kits will be collected by NMS and sent to
  FPS for their next school year, which starts in
  late January of 2010.

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A Back-to-School Supply Kit

• 1 zip-loc style plastic sandwich bag
• 2 pens
• 2 pencils
• 2 erasers Large pink ones
• 1 glue stick
• 1 small pencil sharpener
• A 3x5 (or 5x3) spiral bound memo pad
• A 1 bill (for shipping cost)

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