Church of Jesus Christ Donates to Satupa’itea Primary School

19 January 2011

APIA, Samoa — “The Satupaitea District is the happy recipient of brand new furniture in the form of desks and chairs for its Primary School, gifted by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints,” according to a report this week in the Samoa Observer newspaper.

The article continues: “In August 2010, the Church donated to Satupaitea Primary educational materials including library books, reading books, texts books for English, Science and other subjects, reference books including encyclopedias, and self-filtering water bottles for students.

“The donation was the result of the Ministry of Education’s nomination of Satupaitea as one of the schools needing the assistance.

“And it was at that presentation that the Satupaitea District had requested the Church’s assistance in desks and chairs, as most of the more than 300 students were using mats on the floor.”

The newspaper reports that “The unassembled furniture arrived in Samoa in a 20-foot container and taken to Savaii in three trucks where the Church’s thirteen missionaries in the Savaii Central Missionary Zone – assisted by villagers - worked hard to assemble them.

According to the Samoa Observer, President Laulu Mokesi Laulu of the Church’s Savaii South Stake spoke on behalf of the Church to formally present the assistance under the Church’s humanitarian aid programme.

“The Church’s assistance is given indiscriminately to those in need regardless of race, religion, and colour,” he told the Observer.

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