Responding to the devastating fire at Tenakoga Secondary School, Guadalcanal Island, Solomon Islands

On 2 September, 2021, a fire broke out at Tenakoga Adventist Secondary School, Guadalcanal Island, a school run by the SDA Education Authority which accommodates Grade 7-12 students coming from different provinces across the country.

Destroyed was a 2 storey classroom block which housed:

• Year 10 Classroom
• Year 11 Classroom
• Resource room
• Social Science Department office
• Year 12 Science lab
• whole school science lab
• science chemical store-room science resource room (where all science equipment’s stored)
• 100+ plus tables / chairs
• text resources
• science apparatus
• photocopy machine
• students assessments
• teachers marks record for students ready to be submitted to the Ministry of Education (IAs) as well as
• part of a staff house that stood beside the block 

Teachers and students have been traumatized by this incident and the school has suspended classes for a week. During the break the school will offer support to all those impacted as well as draw up tentative plans for classroom uses and how to get science resources for students.

 

Key Areas of Investments

• Support / counselling for all traumatised by the fire event
• Strategic planning to minimise disruption to the delivery of the school’s education outcomes
• Repair, Rebuild, Refit and Replace damaged classrooms, equipment and educational resources