Call to help transport supplies from Aust

The National National
Rotary Club members and volunteers helping to unload and organise some of the medical and educational items sent from Australia through the “donation in kind” programme to help communities in Papua New Guinea. – Picture supplied

THE Papua New Guinea Chamber of Mines and Petroleum has urged its members and partners to support the “donations in kind” programme to transport medical and educational supplies from Australia to Papua New Guinea.
In a statement, the chamber said through the Australia and PNG Rotary clubs partnership, they were donating medical and education supplies to areas in need around the country over the past three decades.
“The chamber is calling on support from our members to help fund as many shipping containers as we can, to be donated to Papua New Guinea,” the statement said.
“The Rotary Australia World Community Service Ltd, through its ‘donations in kind’ programme receives medical and educational supplies in Australia and then volunteers pack and ship these containers to PNG, which are unpacked and distributed to much-needed areas.”
According to chamber, after the programme was established 30 years ago, rotary’s donations in kind has shipped nearly 700 containers to PNG containing donated items worth about AU$58 million (K156, 698,932).