Nuns focus on helping shelter women and girls

By MARJORIE FINKEO
A GROUP of Catholic nuns plan to build a centre to assist women and girls facing accommodation problems in Port Moresby.
A piece of land worth more than K5 million given to the Daughters of Our Lady of the Scared Heart by businessman James Pang will be used to build the centre.
Sr Relida Gumur said more women with children were facing problems every day because of family violence, separation, poverty and neglect and had been helped by the Catholic sisters in the past.
“With little funding, we help them with food and money. We cannot accommodate them because the homes we have could not cater for the whole lot of them every day,” she said.
Pang urged businessmen around to country to assist in the construction of the centre.
He said it was an area which needed more attention.
He is appealing to companies which can donate cement, timber and steel to get in touch with him.