LASALLIAN FOUNDATION / TWINNING FREE BREAKFAST -ALL WELCOME AT HOHOLA! Getting up to be at school by 6am doesn’t sound like much fun. That is the lot of the ‘Breakfast Club’ volunteer students, at La Salle Technical College at Hohola in Port Moresby. Four days a week, a nutritious meal is served to 200, could be 300 students. Although the idea is not new for schools, where students are struggling in disadvantaged families, La Salle’s Club must be near the gold standard. In 2012, this important program was begun. As the current College Director says: “We have students that commute to school from villages as far away as Tubusereia & Boera along Magi Highway, east of Port Moresby. Additionally, 75% of our students live in settlement areas, which lack basic services of water, electricity and sanitation. (“Settlements” in PNG is the term for squatter areas). Most of these students miss out on breakfast... Many students arrive as early as 7am at school. They get up around 5am to make their way to school.”
17 JOURNAL LA SALLE - EDITION 1, 2021
