Digicel Foundation touches lives of 780,000 people

DIGICEL Foundation PNG through its development programme has assisted five primary schools, 10 libraries, 11 elementary classrooms, four community learning centres, two rural aid posts and four mobile clinics this year.
Chief executive Beatrice Mahuru said they were able to complete the projects with a funding of K9.5 million.
“We are thankful to our partners, including the Australian government, who helped to fund us. With that we were able to complete those projects,” she said.
Mahuru said the foundation hoped to bring changes to rural areas and were motivated by the statistics from the United Nations studies in regards to Papua New Guinea’s situation.
“Our work is in line with the priorities of the government,” she said.
She said their approach to services was “not hand-out but hands-out” – meaning communities must reach out to them to bring services to them.
Mahuru said more than 780,000 people in remote areas had directly benefitted from the service they provided.
The headmaster of Vakunai Primary School, in Bougainville, John Lee Jonah praised the foundation for their assistance.