CEO: Youths can improve communities

By JAMES GUKEN,
DWU journalism student
YOUTH leadership summit chief executive officer Jacqui Joseph says helping youths to improve their skills will enable them to use their influence to help communities.
“This is what we want to achieve so that they can fight gender inequality in Papua New Guinea,” she said.
Summit participant Jireh Liliura said men and women had equal rights but it was not so in PNG.
Liliura said there was no reason why women should not get a job men did, especially in the Government, because women also got the same education as men do.
Another summit participant Klenneth Pombo said the programme would help participants bring the idea of how gender inequality and other issues affecting people around the country to the level of people in their communities.
Pombo said people wanted to make changes but the big question was how they would go about to do the changes instead of waiting for the Government.
“We, the young people, should be standing up and doing things for our country,” he said.
Joseph said the summit would ensure young people come up with ideas and work together.