Kauma Adventist High School

Kauma Adventist High School
Address
Abemama atoll
Via Tarawa
Kiribati
Information
School type Private, co-educational, day school
Denomination Seventh-day Adventist
Established 1957 (1957)
Area trustee Australasian Conference Association Limited
Chairperson Tengon Ta'abuke
Administrator Kabaritaake Banabati
Principal Tengon Ta'abuke
Teaching staff 22
Gender Mixed
Enrolment 300[1]
Accreditation Adventist Accrediting Association[2]
Abemama
Location of Abemama atoll in the Pacific Ocean
Gilbert Islands chain

Kauma Adventist High School is a coeducational Christian secondary school located on the island of Abemama, Kiribati, established in 1957. It is a boarding school operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The Adventist mission headquarters for Kiribati, formerly the Gilbert Islands, have been located on Abemama since the late 1940s. An elementary school began there in 1955 shortly after the organizing of the first congregation in the mission.

History

Adventist church worker John T. Howse began the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Mission in 1947. He arrived via the church's newly appointed mission boat, the Fetu Ao, or the "Day Dawn". The mission's first church was organized in 1954. The next year a school began. By 1957, a boarding high school was established. The Fetu Ao traveled among the islands and brought students to the school. It did this up to the early 1970s.

Geography

The islands of the Gilbert chain consist of coral rather than soil. The highest point on most of these islands is less than 15 feet (5 metres) above sea level. Agriculture is quite limited. The main crop is coconuts. Abemama is a small "C"-shaped island which encircles a lagoon. The school is located in view of the ocean and the pounding of the surf is part of school life.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Kiribati Adventist School Does Not Simply Educate". Melody Tan. Record. Retrieved 25 April 2010.
  2. ↑ Staff (undated). "Adventist Yearbook". General Conference Office of Statistics & Archives. Retrieved 6 August 2016.


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