Company supplies meat products to camp

PRIMA Smallgoods is the latest sponsor to support the Athletics Papua New Guinea distance training camp in Kerowagi, Chimbu, by pledging K17,000 worth of meat products this year.
The camp started last month with the objective of preparing middle and long distance runners to represent PNG at the World Cross Country Championships in February next year.
There are nine male and as many female athletes in the camp.
Prima has been supporting athletics for a number of years by way of providing their meat products for training camps in Lae and Goroka.
“This is a significant boost to the programme,” camp coordinator and former distance runner Philip Kamane said.
”Whilst we have a grant from World Athletics to cover some major expenses such as accommodation, we have to supplement that with local support and our sponsors like PNG Air and Prima are very important to us.”
Kamane also acknowledged the support of local company TNA Holdings which had agreed to transport the products from Prima’s factory in Lae.
Meanwhile, the athletes will tomorrow be farewelling coach Wilson Malana and his wife Beatrish who have fulfilled the roles of coach and manager respectively in the camp for the duration of the school holidays and now need to return home to Kimbe. The pair have now handed over these responsibilities to former athletes Winai Waro and Morris Manai, with support from coaches Sapolai Yao and Arnold Gigmai.