By Aqela Susu, Suva | 07 Sep 2015 

The handing over of the newly refurbished laundry facility should make life easier for the 400 boarders at Adi Cakobau School (ACS).

School principal Laisa Soko made the comment while acknowledging the efforts made by the school’s Old Girls Association from Nadi.

The association funded the refurbishment after holding two successful raffles and a ball at the Sheraton Fiji Resort in Nadi last year.

“The laundry was old and now that it’s been renovated it will boost the morale of the girls and also help them,” Mrs Soko said.

The school will also be getting eight dryers and washing machines.

“Knowing the weather here at ACS it is mostly raining and with the number of students we have at the hostel it will make things much easier for them as they will not be going to look for shelter to dry their clothes,” Mrs Soko said.

The ACS Old Girls Nadi branch president, Mereoni Baroka, said they raised the $20,000 funding for the refurbishment in two years.

“As mothers who have attended ACS it was a depressing sight for us to see the state of the laundry with its musky smell of dampness from stagnant mould accumulated over wood and wall paint peels and it was from that day that we vowed to do something about this,” she said.