The St. Ignatius Secondary School and the Lethem Special Needs Group have been awarded grants amounting to US$178,170 ($36 million) under Japan’s Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Society Project (GGP).
The grant agreements were signed at a simple ceremony at the St. Ignatius Village Benab on Thursday in the presence of students of the school and residents of Region Nine.
According to Mark Adams, coordinator of the local leg of the GGP, the St. Ignatius Secondary School will use its grant to for its electrification project, which would see the school utilising solar energy to power the entire school’s compound. The grant is expected to facilitate the installation of a