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The DahCavill Customary School
[view map]. is located near Port Moresby in a small swamp village called RakaRaka, at Laloki, adjacent to the Laloki Psychiatric Hospital on the Hiritano Highway of the Central Province of Papua New Guinea (view map). The school is situated on over 200 hectares of customary land on the banks of the Laloki River.
The school is a customary school on customary land of the Motu Koitabu people. It was started in 2001 and has since become an Open Learning & a Resource Centre.
Without any government assistance, the Dah Cavill Customary School relies heavily on the generous assistance of private patrons and promotes the virtues of integrity and complete self reliance; we charge the families that entrust their children to us NO FEES!
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Kids at class
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Awarding the young
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Starting at 2 weeks old
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Our peanut harvest
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There are 200 children, aged from 2 years to 15 years enlisted from the immediate area of ‘HIVASO’ (Hiri-Vanapa-Sogeri). Many are TOP UP children from other schools that attend weekend classes and others that do not have school fees & bus fares.
The Centre has a set of standard rules from which a natural selection process of worthy families is conducted.
The school has around 20 computers of various vintage with educational programs (English & Math’s-all ages) of highest International standard. It is open 7 days a week from 7:00am to 3:00pm.
The four main things taught are:
- Good manners
- English,
- Driving,
- Computers.
Other lessons offered in life skills are: vocational trades, commercial farming, Mama’s refuge & adult literacy, CODE, awareness of customary law and productive village living with Melanesian values.
The school provides 1 meal a day per child. Basic medicine plus transport is available.
The children are expected to pay for their lessons in two ways: - That they learn hard in their school lessons,
- That they work hard in the fields of their school gardens and all life skill activities assigned to them.
The parents are expected to commit themselves to the future of their children.
Support of the school in anyway is always greatly appreciated. Many thanks in advance.
If you would like to provide specific support the DahCavill Customary School please see our
"wish list"
Farming Equipment
- 1x 100h.p. tractor complete with front wheel assist
- 1x point linkage land scraper to suit
- 1x 24 disc harrow (Napier Grasslands)
- 1x 5 disc plough (Napier Grasslands)
- 2x 30h.p. diesel pumps 6"x4" complete with suction hoses & foot valves, 3m suction, 100m head.
- 1x cubic meter tipper trailer
- 1x front end loader to suit
- 12x large irrigation spray nozzles
- 1x 5000 litre wheeled water tanker
- 1x building materials for enclosed nursery 12mx6m
- 3x Stihl brush cutters
- 2x Stihl chain saws
- Lengths of 50x100 RHS
- Lengths of 50ml dia gal pipe
- Galv. wire mesh 2mx3m
- Shadecloth structure, 70m x 70m, 30% protection
- 10,000 ltr water tanks
- Solar panels & inverters
Other
- Second hand clothing for kids & adults.
- Computer programs for kids/adults 2yrs to 25yrs-educational etc.
- Any second hand or new computer parts e.g. memory cards/video cards/flash drives etc.
(We repair & build computers etc. Pentium 3&4)
Seeds (Heirloom Organics-company)
- Packs of open pollinated corn
- Seed vault
- Family pack
- Homestead pack
- Farm pack
- Tobacco pack
- Medicine pack
- Chili lovers pack
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Miscellaneous
- Vouchers e.g. for diesel fuel, easi pay(electricity), food & medicine.
- Sewing machines, s/hand adult technical books - carpentry, mechanics, metal works etc.
(We already have plenty books on pottery, sewing & cooking).
- For our Police law classes - any books (s/hand) on common law, Aust. Law etc.
- 'Agriculture in the tropics' 3rd edition, (C.C.Webster P.N. Wilson), (September 1998), (Wiley Blackwell)
- Classic DVD's for kids: Snow white, Watership down, Animal farm, Lord of the rings, Wind in the willows, To kill a mocking bird, Inherit the wind etc.
- Educational programmes: English, Maths, Geometry etc - pre school to matriculation, (preferably Not multiple choice types - makes the kids guess. We want them to think.
- Any books on PNG history (older the better).
- Any books on poultry, small animal husbandry e.g. goats, rabbits, chicken etc.
- 1x large globe of the earth complete with stand - any condition.
- Any old broken workshop machines e.g. lathes, mills, woodwork, planer, thicknessers & handtools etc.
(We will repair them in our workshop & use them in our vocational school)
- 50mx80m weed mat
- 1x satellite phone
- 2x 2way radio
- 6x backpacks mountain type
- Lego blocks etc.
- Meccano sets.
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DahCavill Customary School
P.O. Box 2107, Boroko, NCD 111
Papua New Guinea
T: +675 325 4856 - E: click to contact us
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