Lifeline calls for govt assistance

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PAPUA New Guinea’s oldest counselling service, Lifeline PNG, is appealing to Government agencies and individuals to help restore its services in Port Moresby.
Lifeline PNG, founded in 1973, stopped its services in 2012 after its major donor left.
“We have the facilities and building to operate and provide services, but we lack funds,” Lifeline PNG chairman Bugave Kada said.
Lifeline PNG, a non-profit organisation, used to provide counselling via telephone, face to face counselling and written counselling.
“It is about what is good for society to restore the services.
“The biggest obstacle is to find our way back with financial support,” Kada said.
He said Lifeline PNG needed to pay staff wages, operational costs, employ two full-time counsellors, reconnect the telephone counselling lines and carry out some office repairs, on air-conditioners, windows and roofing.
“Lifeline PNG had helped save thousands women, girls and even men through counselling and keeping them in their refuge house for the past 46 years.
“We helped women who are removed from homes because of violence and sorcery-related deaths because they were no longer accepted in society,” he said.
Kada said Lifeline PNG had a refuge home in North Waigani that provided shelter for only six women at a time.