Riga hoping to make a difference as a teacher

Youth & Careers

By EHEYUC SESERU
BALOB Teachers’ College first-year student Philip Riga wants to become a good teacher after graduation and provide quality education to the country’s children.
Riga, 27, from Hamoronong village in the Burum-Kuat local level government of Finschhafen, Morobe, hopes to also become a good manager at school to see its operations run smoothly and efficiently.
“I will try to manage school resources wisely to help overcome its challenges,” Riga said.
Teaching is not new in his family. Some of his aunts, uncles, parents and grannies were teachers.
He was finally enrolled at the college after applying unsuccessfully for last two years.
He was finally accepted at the college after applying last year.
He completed grade 9 at the Bumayong Lutheran Secondary School in 2005 after his father was unemployed and could not pay his school fees.
In 2011, he was accepted for grade 10 at the Salamaua Provincial High School.
He completed grade 11 and 12 at the Wawin National High School where he was selected as the head boy.
He worked for two years as a promotion and marketing assistant at a supermarket chain in Lae before upgrading his marks at the University of
Technology’s department of distance learning.