St Joseph's School, Mabiri is a
Marist Brothers
The Marist Brothers of the Schools, commonly known as simply the Marist Brothers, is an international community of Catholic Church, Catholic religious institute of Religious brother, brothers. In 1817, Marcellin Champagnat, a Marist priest from Fr ...
school on
Bougainville Island
Bougainville Island (; Tok Pisin: ''Bogenvil'') is the main island of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, which is part of Papua New Guinea. Its land area is . The highest point is Mount Balbi, on the main island, at .
The much smaller Buk ...
, the main island of the
Autonomous Region of Bougainville
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of
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an island country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean n ...
.
Funding
The school receives funding from government and non-government organizations, including
Australian Aid
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from Australia and other countries. They have also been helped by Australian Marist students and schools, including
St Joseph's College, Hunters Hill
St Joseph's College (abbreviated as SJC and commonly called ''Joeys'') is an independent Catholic secondary day and boarding school for boys, conducted in the Marist Brothers tradition, located in Hunters Hill, a suburb on the Lower North Sh ...
and
Champagnat Catholic College Pagewood.
.
See also
* Catholic Church in Papua New Guinea
The Catholic Church in Papua New Guinea is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome. Papua New Guinea has approximately two million Catholic adherents, approximately 27 percent of the country's total ...
* Education in Papua New Guinea
Education in Papua New Guinea is managed through nineteen provinces and two district organisational units. It is tuition-free and attendance is not compulsory.
The Human Rights Measurement Initiative (HRMI) finds that Papua New Guinea is fulfil ...
* List of schools in Papua New Guinea
References
External links
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MAPS (marist asia-pacific solidarity) on Bougainville
Catholic Church in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville
Educational institutions with year of establishment missing
Autonomous Region of Bougainville
Marist Brothers schools
Catholic schools in Papua New Guinea
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