CAWACI PNG PARENTS AND EX-STUDENTS ASSOCIATION
17th March 2013
The Association was recently formed by the parents of the Papua New Guinea students attending the St John’s College – Cawaci in Fiji. The objective of the association is to raise money to assist with the needs of our students and the school.
Brief History of St John’s College – Cawaci
St John's College (commonly called 'St Johns College Cawaci) is a Catholic secondary school located in Cawaci, on the island of Ovalau, in the province of Lomaiviti, Fiji. St John's College is a co-educational boarding school. While administered by the Catholic Archdiocese, it also accepts non-Catholic students and apart from priests, nuns and brothers of religious orders, has government-paid staff. Below is a link to the school's website.St John's Cawaci School Website
St John's College is one of Fiji's oldest Catholic mission school, established at Nasarete (Nazareth) a small hill within the Cawaci Catholic Mission land in 1894.
Today, the school caters for 540 students of which 14 students comprising 4 girls and 10 boys are from Papua New Guinea.
The school was first known to Mr Harry Landu and his wife Susan. They heard about the discipline of the school and did not hesitate to send their two sons and niece to further their education at St John’s College. Pio Landu and Emmanuel Landu who are the PNG pioneers students of the school completed their Form 5 in 2011 while Lina Landu Siwi graduated with Form 7 Certificate in (2012). Mark Makeso, Neville Kakao and Daniella Boas joined in 2011 while Jeremiah Landu, Marie-Stella Kiliu and Richard Wagambie (Junior) joined the rest of the students in 2012.
The numbers of PNG students are increasing every year because of the discipline of the school.
As a result this year, (2013) Seven (7) new students were enrolled at St John’s College. The students are; Eugene Togimwara, Martin Kamdel, Garry Palangat, Solomon Wartovo, Alex Matlaun and Glen Manoi.
