Bulolo women welcome bridge

THE Papua New Guinea Women in Business (PNGWiB) has joined in welcoming the opening of the Bupu footbridge in Bulolo, saying it will help people in the electorate to access markets in Lae, Bulolo and Wau.
Group executive chairperson Janet Sape congratulated Bulolo MP and National Planning Minister Sam Basil for the initiative, saying it would help women in the area.
Basil was accompanied by Maprik MP Gabriel Kapris, who has encouraged women in his electorate to join the women in business initiative.
The women’s group has an office in Maprik and several thousand members from the electorate.
In Bulolo, the group has a number of members and Basil’s 10th footbridge will go a long way in eliminating the plight of the mothers who struggle to cross the river, which has already taken several lives.
“The potential for Kru Sago which grows wild in Bulolo could easily flood the Port Moresby market at an affordable price,” Sape said.
She said the bulk of members in Momase were happy with services being rendered by Basil and Kapris who had taken special interest in helping women.
“PNGWiB conducted three financial literacy trainings already which is a pre-requisite to accessing mini-loans but the difficulty has been in reaching markets,” she said.
“Basil’s building of such bridges will go a long way in helping our rural mothers in Bulolo.”
Basil has already officiated in a women in business literacy training programme where he donated sewing machines and committed to build a resource centre for mothers in
Bulolo.
“This is what we want our members of parliament to do for us … to reach out to their rural women who will benefit directly. PNGWiB is the vehicle through which respective MPs should use and put their money in for their women to access loans to venture into small
to medium-sized business,” Sape said.