By
MALUM NALU
People of Chimbu province will again benefit from an
educational awareness campaign carried out by students and academics of the
province.
Chimbu Governor Fr John Garia (left) and acting secretary for National Planning and Monitoring, Dr Peter Ga’Allah Kora at the launching of this year’s Project 21 last Thursday. |
The campaign, called Project 21, was started by
former University of PNG academic and now acting secretary for National
Planning and Monitoring, Dr Peter Ga’Allah Kora, last year to help curb issues
that affected the community.
He has already garnered the support of Chimbu
Governor Fr John Garia to continue the campaign this year.
It sets the platform and creates an avenue for
Chimbu students and professionals to assist the community with their relevant
knowledge and skills in areas such as good governance, law and order, human
rights, environmental issues, climate change, resource development issues,
culture, education, corruption, effective service deliver, health and HIV/AIDS.
“The idea was to help the Chimbu people,” Dr Kora
said during a meeting with Fr Garia last Thursday.
“Chimbu, as you know, has very little natural
resources.
“We only have human resources.
“If we continue to do this every year, we will
change the mindset of the people.”
Fr Garia said the campaign worked very well last
year.
“I support this concept as Chimbu Governor,” he
said.
“This is a very good initiative.
“I support anything to do with education and
development of human resources.”
This year, Project 21 will run a week-long
development seminar in Kundiawa from Dec 5-9, to discuss various issues
affecting the province.
Dr Kora has already committed K10, 000 from his
department to support the project.
He also announced that a new training centre, to be
named after him, would be built to cater for Project 21 and had already been
registered with the Investment Promotion Authority.
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