unicef for nias

From UNICEF to Nias, 46 Elementary Schools

Saturday, 16 May 2009 | 1:58 AM

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - The United Nations Children?s Fund (UNICEF) has in the last four years built 46 school buildings in Nias regency, North Sumatra, and 79 others still under construction. A UNICEF staff official in Jakarta Angela Kerney disclosed Friday in the last four years the international social organization had been promoting basic education in Indonesia.

Nias Deputy Regent Temazaro Harefa said that UNICEF has done a great deal for the region which had been devastated by a tsunami about four years ago. Most of the elementary school built by the international organization were reasonably quake resistant.

Angela made the statement during the dedication of a newly built elementary school building in Gunungsitoli, Nias regency. The school for 500 students has 16 classrooms, and had been built on land where two school buildings once stood and completely destroyed by the tsunami.

Angela said the new school needs to be manned by widely experienced teachers and attended by highly motivated students. UNICEF also promoted air sanitation and nutrition.

All that we have done and will be doing are part of our commitment to rebuild Nias, Angela said.