RH helps disabled athletes
By HENRY MORABANG
RIMBUNAN Hijau PNG Group yesterday honored their commitment by presenting K5,000 to the PNG Paralympic Committee to support its team to Beijing Paralympic Games in September.
General manager of logging operations for Southern region Andrew Tiong presented the money to president of PNG Paralympic Committee Ben Theodore at a brief ceremony at RH headquarters in Port Moresby.
Tiong said when when Dame Carol Kidu launched the fund raising few weeks ago for the PNG Paralympic Committee, he Rimbunan Hijau PNG Group through James Lau pledged K5,000 towards the fund raising.
“On behalf of the RH Group, he are presenting K5,000 to the PNG Paralympics Committee,” he said.
“We have over the years assisted the PNG Paralympics Committee in their fund raising efforts. As a corporate citizen and in line with our core objective of being a genuine partner in the nation building process, we have decided to again assist the team to get them prepared for the 2008 Beijing Olympics,”
Tiong said supporting an activity like sports contributed to someone’s personal and physical development, “and as we all know, being disabled does not stop someone from living a normal life”.
He said the RH Group believes that this assistance will go a long way in supporting the PNG Paralympics team who would, hopefully, come back with Gold medals for Papua New Guinea.
PNG Paralympic Committee president Ben Theodore said the Malaysian timber company had been supportive in whatever the Paralympic had been doing and the money would go a long way to help athletes with disabilities.
He said RH Group assisted a PNG Paralympic team to Kuala Lumpur last year and also to Darwin Arafura Games for the Oceania Championship where two of its athletes Francis Kompaon and Kupuni Lewa qualified on merit for the Beijing Game.
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