The installation of solar lighting panels at Markham Valley High School will provide valuable night time study lighting for over 1,300 students.
The solar lighting will also reduce the school’s expense to maintain power generators.
The installation of the solar lighting kit was done recently under the Bank South Pacific’s Lae Branch Community Project.
Markham Valley Secondary School Principal, Billy Kayo, thanked BSP for the assistance and encouraged the staff and students of the school to recognise the support and to be responsible in taking care of the solar equipment.
BSP Head of Corporate Banking in Lae, Gary Sugars, also urged the surrounding community to take care of the equipment as it will benefit more students in the future.
“We are pleased that we can give back to each of our communities and contribute to improving the lives of people in the community,” he said.
Markham Valley High School is located 121km out of Lae city and caters for over 1,300 students from Grades 9 to 12, from all districts of the Morobe Province.
It is the sixth school to receive solar lighting through BSP’s 2018 community project initiative.
Of the 48 community projects planned for 2018, Mendi, Kundiawa, Vanimo, Mt. Hagen branches and the Gordon’s Commercial Centre have successfully completed and handed over their project, under the 2018 theme “Solar lights in schools”.
Each project is worth K25,000 and is fully funded by BSP.
BSP plans to deliver 48 community projects in 2018, worth over K1.2 million.