290411WORLD VISION TO EDUCATE PEOPLE
BY JOYCE TOHUI
A team from World Vision Buka office last week carried out awareness on its Education Project into areas of Central Bougainville.
In making the report, Education Project Development Facilitator, MARTIN MATUA told New Dawn FM that the awareness is to make people aware of the project and how it will be implemented in the area.
He said that the project was initiated following a survey carried out by World Vision which stated that literacy was a problem on Bougainville.
He added that this survey also found out that there was a great imbalance between the number of boys going to school compared to the fewer number of girls attending schools.
MR MATUA said that this project is the first of its kind in PNG and the Pacific and would be implemented at ROROVANA 1, ROROVANA 2 and two more villages in the Central Bougainville.
He said there are two categories in the project, one will deal in teaching literacy to children and category two will train youths with life skills.
He said these skills will enable them to be productive in their communities.
The Officer said that during the awareness the people are more interested in the training of life skills.