DWU student gets Rotary assistance for his community
July 27, 2010
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Frank Goi … the DWU student who successfully negotiated community assistance from Rotary clubs in Australia. |
A Divine Word University student has successfully negotiated a community assistance package for communities in Jiwaka, Western Highlands Province from Rotary clubs in Australia whom he previously associated with as a student at the University of Newcastle.
The assistance from the Rotarians in New South Wales includes the construction of a classroom, ablution block and teachers’ houses at Nondugl Admin Community School and the shipment of a 40feet container carrying furniture, books and other school supplies. These items will be distributed to Nondugl and other schools in the region.
The student Frank Goi said as counter-support for the project the Rotarians expect local sponsorship for transportation of the container from Lae wharf to Nondugl station in September he will need help.
Goi said as a student he does not have the means to pay for the transport of the container to Nondugl and is appealing to the Western Highlands provincial government, leaders and business houses in the province and around the country to assist. Goi can be contacted on phone number 72202744 or email address: fgoi@student.dwu.ac.pg.
Goi said an advance party of three Rotarians will travel to Jiwaka on the 3rd of September where he will show them the project sites for them to plan. The advance team is Adrian Roach who is the director of Rotary in Maitland East, Rod Ingersoll, director of Rotary in Cardiff both in NSW and a building planner.
Goi said the trio will then return to Australia to coordinate resources and manpower and a 30-strong team of Rotarians is expected to arrive in December to work on the project at Nondugl Community School.
He said Rotary’s policy requires local support and called on Jiwakans from Nondugl and surrounding districts to support the project, especially when education is key to develop the newly declared Jiwaka Province which comes into formal existence in 2012.
“We Jiwakans do not have other big resources apart from coffee and tea and human resources is key for the future of our new province and we should support these sorts of community assistance from an international NGO,” said Goi who is a second year business student at DWU.
