This is the 33rd year since the government-funded School Grant assistance started in 1984.
And since then the annual subsidy for mission, private, early childhood and special schools has increased from fifty thousand tala to 6 million tala.
The number of schools receiving the assistance has also increased from the first year when only mission schools received assistance to about 30 schools this year.
Prime Minister Tuilaepa Lupesoliai Sailele Malielegaoi assured the schools that the annual grant will gradually increase depending on the government’s finances.
