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26 Oct 2022
Gulf students to take part in carrying out ISEZ awareness in their home village.
The festive season is approaching and the students will be heading home for the closure of the year. This provides a great opportunity for the Ihu Special Economic Zone Project Development Office to team up with the young motivated youths from Gulf province attending the University of Papua New Guinea for the Awareness Program that will be conducted at their district.
The group consisting of sixteen students were brought to the ISEZ office in Port Moresby to plan out the awareness programs.
The students will be splitting into four groups to cover the four Local Level Governments (LLGs) in Kikori province, which are, East Kikori, West Kokori, Ihu, and Baimuru. The groups will be doing awareness on programs which involves SME training, land mobilization, and also informing the people on what ISEZ project office is about.
The selected students are village based students. For the past two years ISEZ has funded Gulf students in UPNG, and next year ISEZ is planning to extend its reach to other institutions in Port Moresby and will continue collaborate with students to carry out awareness programs.
The sixteen students will be departing next month right when school holidays kick off.
ISEZ Team Members, Michael O’Kave (SME Team Leader), Tony Auvita (Land Mobilization Team Leader), Nadia Kuman (FS/GIS Team Leader), Field Officers, Sebastian Haraha and Moses Hape will be travelling to the project site also to concurrently work with the students for three weeks conducting land surveys, data collation, land mobilization - information dissemination, and building relationships/rapport with communities.