Japan’s Grant Assistance to Xavier for Student Center 

 

The Government of Japan provided $88,478 to Xavier High School in Chuuk State for the Project for Setting-up of Student Center under the Japan’s Grant Assistance for Grass-roots Human Security.

Signing Grant Contract, Left: Father Richard McAuliff, SJ

Right: Ambassador Sato

  

A Grant Contract signing ceremony was taken place on January 12, 2009 at the Embassy of Japan’s conference room in Kolonia. Mr. Shoji Sato, Ambassador of Japan to the F.S.M. signed on behalf of the Government of Japan, and Father Robert Richard McAuliff, SJ, Director of Xavier High School also signed the Contract.

 

Xavier High School, a well-known alma mater for many FSM’s government dignitaries, located in Chuuk State, has got a new project, granted by the Government of Japan for the new student center. It’s still fresh to remember that Xavier was on the news paper for having refurbished white color school building assisted by the Japanese private company, Mabuchi Construction, after 70 years of history since they built it as a Japanese navy communication base. This time, Ambassador Sato of the Embassy of Japan reaffirmed the importance of quality of education that FSM has to maintain, particularly like Xavier, the school which steadily keeps a high educational standard and attracting the prospective future leaders of Micronesia.

 

The project will set up the Student Center at Xavier by renovating the old unused church. It is expected to help improving the academic and leadership performance of students at Xavier, and will enable Xavier to continue to attract quality students from across Micronesia despite the Chuuk’s unfavorable economic situation.

 

The Student Center includes unique functions like a ‘Student Body Association Office’ for the students to build leadership skills, and a ‘Tutoring Center’ for tutoring both Xavier students and students from local public elementary school(s). The Director of Xavier high school, Father Rich emphasised the importance of education, and pointed that the revival of communities will be inevitable in order for Chuuk to resume educational quality.

 

The entire student population of Xavier High School and the population of Sapuk Elementary School (approximately 300 students per year) are expected to get benefit directly by the project, but also eventually to have an impact on the local community as a whole including other local public schools.

 

From Left: Mr.Hamada(JICA Resident Representative),

Mr.Nomura(JOCV at Xavier), Father Richard McAuliff, SJ 

Amb. Sato, Mr.Tohge (Grassroots Coordinator)

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