Running small business pushes woman to study

Managing a small business has encouraged Lucy Chepok to take up computing and business.
“Running our family business has pushed me to study computing and human resource management,” said Chepok, who recently graduated from the International Training Institute’s Manus campus, on Friday.
“Taking computing has made my job a lot easier in terms of communication,” said Chepok.
She completed grade 10 in 2008 at Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Secondary School in Vanapope, East New Britain.
The 28-year-old from Powai in Manus and Gazelle of East New Britain went to OISCA (Organisation for Industrial, Spiritual and Cultural Advancement) Rabaul Eco-Tech Training Centre in Warongoi, ENB, for one year after high school.
With her interest in agriculture, she then went on to study livestock and survey for another year and six months and did her five months practical with New Britain Palm Oil.
After her father’s death in 2012 she was forced to go to Manus where she lived for two years without doing anything.
She got a beer licence and runs a bar in Lorengau Town where she now lives with her elder brother.
Chepok realised how important it was for her to know and learn computer skills.
“I can now do my own job and don’t have to rely on other people,” said Chepok.