OTML helps locals

FORTY-NINE families from Finalbin village, one of the six villages in the OK Tedi mining special lease area, will now live in “new look” permanent homes.
This follows OK Tedi Mining Limited’s (OTML) official handover of 49 permanent houses to the families last month.
OTML’s executive manager for OK Tedi Development Foundation (OTDF) Musje Werror handed the keys of the houses to the respective families after the completion of the Finalbin housing project.
The project involved the total renovation and maintenance of the families’ previous homes.
The project undertook by local contractor Tawap Kamen Investments and OTML apprentices, took more than 12 months and cost K2.4 million.
Funding was made available through the Community Mine Continuation Agreement (CMCA), which covers compensation payments given to them by OTML.
The Finalbin Village Planning Committee (FVPC), which comprises of village leaders who plan and decide on projects to be funded under their CMCA, decided to invest in permanent houses.
Mr Werror encouraged the villagers to support their FVPC leaders to plan for the future after the OK Tedi mine closes in 2013 and to spend their money wisely.
“I commend your FVPC leaders for making this project happen. Leadership is very important and FVPC has a lot of challenges so I encourage you to continue to support them.
“You have a lot of challenges ahead of you and you must learn to use your money wisely and invest some for later use,” Mr Werror said.
Manager for OTML’s regional engineering John Iru, whose section oversees the engineering component of the project, also praised the leaders of FVPC for deciding to invest in permanent houses for their people
The 49 houses also included an aid post and an aid post orderly’s house. Each house has three bedrooms, a living room, kitchen, toilet and shower and is stocked with all the relevant furniture and electrical products such as laundry machines, dryers, refrigerators and ovens.

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