Togs secures top honour

The National Main Stories

By GEDION TIMOTHY
BOSA Togs, the overall winner of this year’s Westpac Outstanding Women award, has dedicated her achievements to her parents.
“I wouldn’t have been here to receive the award if it wasn’t for the help of my mum and my late father to define the person I am today from my childhood,” she said.
“To my husband and my family who gave me the support  through thick and thin, and for my employer Telikom for giving me the opportunity to learn to lead a group of young, talented and very important ICT people.”
She is the general manager of the Telikom PNG Limited Information Technology department.
She also won the PricewaterhouseCoopers Private Sector Award.
There were 21 women in the finals. More than 100 nominations were received in the 10th anniversary of Westpac’s flagship awards programme of which The National is also a sponsor.
Westpac’s Adrian Hughes, standing in for the bank’s regional head for South Asia and the Pacific Greg Pawson, said: “It’s through the WOW women, those who went before them and those to come, that positive change will come for all people – for women and men, boys and girls.”
The seven winners were:

  • Dr Lutty Amos was awarded the Pacific Assurance Group Public Sector Award for outstanding achievement by a female manager in the public sector who has contributed significantly to the performance of any government service;
  • Dorothy Lamin Koch-Waluta of the Port Moresby City Mission received the  Steamships Not-for-Profit Award for outstanding achievement by a female in the not-for-profit sector, either in a voluntary position or through a role with an organisation;
  • Rita Jaima Paru received the SP Brewery Entrepreneur Award for outstanding achievement by a woman with at least a 50 percent shareholding in an organisation in the field of innovation for new products or services. She started Dial-A-Lunch services in 2014;
  • Annastascia Wanasawo, the president of the Nuku District Women’s Network for 20 years, received the Trukai Community Award recognising an outstanding achievement by a female working to improve conditions in the community;
  • Jacqueline Joseph was given the Institute of Banking and Business Management Young Achievers Award for outstanding achievement by a woman under the age of 30. She founded the Equal Playing Field to tackle domestic violence crisis in Papua New Guinea through generational and cultural change; and,
  • Julienne Leka-Maliaki received the Moore Printing Sports Award recognising the “outstanding achievement by a woman in the development and/or success of a sport or sporting body”. She is the president of Netball PNG.