KEIP is not affected by C-19 --- Thanks Cecilia for pointing to the KEIP (Kiribati Education Improvement Program) as an ongoing bilateral program in the education sector. The KEIP, inter alia, aims to rehabilitate the classrooms, improve WASH facilities and others. You will note from the Australian High Commission Tarawa (https://www.facebook.com/australiainkiribati/) and our Ministry of Education (https://www.facebook.com/moekiribati/) Facebook pages that KEIP continues to operate despite C-19. This is because of several reasons: Kiribati remains a COVID-19 free country (we have had quarantined cases but never become a community/local transmitted ones); the supply chain of goods for the KEIP from Australia and other countries remained operative and the KEIP management office and workforce, like other public and private entities, continued their operations because of the absence of C-19 in Kiribati.

Source author: David Ateti Teaabo david.teaabo@gmail.com