HMAS Adelaide to take school supplies to the North

The Australian Government will be providing essential building materials and school supplies to restore impacted schools in the North.

The building materials will support the repair and re-opening of 15 priority schools, whilst the school supplies will be distributed to 45 primary schools in Bua and Macuata.

The supplies include essential building materials, 800 desks and chairs, 45 water tanks, 12 diesel generator sets with fuel and building materials and stationery supplies to affected students.

These will be loaded onto the Australian Defence Force’s HMAS Adelaide tomorrow morning.

Australia’s Acting High Commissioner to Fiji, Anna Dorney says the Australian Government is strongly committed to Fiji’s response to TC Yasa and is working closely with the Ministry of Education to support children to return to school on the scheduled date.

45 schools in Bua, Cakaudrove and Macuata will receive the supplies this weekend from the HMAS Adelaide.

Supplies to schools in remote locations will be delivered via helicopter.