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This is  Year 2023 Week 8 Whole School photo at the O’Connor Community School with a total of 470 students .

The Peter O’Connor Foundation has filed its annual report with the Australian Charities and Not-for-profit commission. This is in line with the foundation’s principles of openness and accountability. The report can be downloaded by clicking here.

Students at the Peter O’Connor School celebrated PNG Independence Day (September 16) with colourful traditional dress.

The Senior Pastor of the Unity Foursquare Gospel Church Gerehu, Pastor Steven Tony, has written to the Peter O’Connor Foundation thanking the Foundation for its continued support. “On behalf of the Unity Foursquare Gospel Church and O’Connor Primary School Gerehu team, I heartfully would like to appreciate the O’Connor Foundation management for your continuous support of donor funding keeping the O’Connor Primary School functioning to date,” he wrote. “The School graduated 45 students passing out grade six (6) making its 12th graduation on the 7th of December 2022. The School could have not achieved this milestone without your grateful support.”

The Independence Day function at the Peter O’Connor School 

The School has seven classes with a total of 384 students. Class 1.  Teacher Mr Emmanuel  F/26  M/14   Class total 40 Students  Class 2 Teachers Ms Bounjui  F/28  M/26  Class total 54 Students             Class 3 Teacher Ms Taukeii.  F/34  M/23  Class total 57 Students  Class 4  Teacher Ms Kui  F/32  M/35 Class total Students 67 Lower Level Class 1. Teacher Mrs Henry F/33  M/30  Class total Students 63 006     Lower Level Class 2             Lower Level Class 2 Teacher Ms Noho.  F/33  M/21  Class total Students 54 Upper Class 1  Teacher Mrs Kaupa  F/25  M/24 Class total Students 49 Sports days (Fridays) Other classes

Renagi T., the head teacher at O’Connor Community School Gerehu, reports that as the 2021 wraps up he has 230 students at the school. The school was founded with the backing of the Peter O’Connor Foundation which has provided help in paying teachers and in providing much-needed school infrastructure, including books, desks, computers, sporting equipment and help with buildings. The school has provided photographs of recent activity, including celebrations of the 46th anniversary of independence.

A container full of educational material has just been unloaded at the Peter O’Connor School at Gerehu, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. The material came from St Mary’s Catholic College Cairns and the Holy Cross Primary School in Trinity Park. The freight was paid for by the Peter O’Connor Foundation.

The container collected from schools in Cairns by Harry Graepel Science master of St Marys  Catholic College Cairns and shipped to PNG by the Peter O’Connor Foundation has been unloaded at the Christ the Redeemer Anglican school at 9 mile and the Peter O’Connor School Gerehu. These children are in the squatter camps of PNG and without this help would not get any education at all.

The Peter O’Connor Foundation has been thanked by the Saint Barnabas School of Nursing for paying for the shipment of a container to Alotau, Milne Bay Province. Saint Barnabas School of Nursing is a mainline church run institute headed by the Anglican Church of Papua New Guinea. It is supported by the Catholic Church of Alotau Diocese and United Church of Papua Island Region. Seventy-three cartons of books labeled MEDICAL were unpacked and distributed together with shelves to the St Banabas Nursing School. The Principal, Mrs Tabua,was so grateful for the lovely and very expensive gifts. As for the James Chalmers High School and Fife Bay Primary School we gave priority to the 34 desks and chairs for the Grade 10s mock examinations eventuating next week (June 2019). These 34 desks and chairs were just enough to fill two Land Cruiser trucks which will be undertaken tomorrow. Apart from the…