Sam honours parents

RECENT fisheries and marine resource graduate Job Sam, 27, from Mendi, Southern Highlands, says his parents deserve the credit for his achievement.
Sam earned a bachelor’s degree from the Papua New Guinea University of Natural Resources and Environment (PNGUNRE) and was the top student in his class.
“I wouldn’t have made it to where I am now without my parents,” he said.
“It was through them that I was able to complete my studies.”
Sam said his parents were subsistence farmers who earned a living through selling food crops.
He said his parents had worked hard to pay his fees over the four years at the university.
Sam said he was grateful to his father and mother, who could not attend the graduation and dedicated his degree to them.
He said he was satisfied with attaining his bachelor’s degree with distinction.
Sam scored the highest GPA (grade point average) out of 239 graduates at PNGUNRE’s 24th graduation ceremony.
He said he chose his course because with climate change affecting the marine environment, he wanted to help protect the country’s the marine resources.
Sam said he planned to earn a master’s degree in his field.
He is the third of five siblings.
He completed his primary education at St Joseph’s Mogol Primary School in 2012, and then went on to Porgera High School in 2014, before completing his secondary schooling in 2016 at St Peter’s Lutheran Secondary School.
He was then selected to study at the UNRE in 2017. The university’s 2020 graduates attained qualifications in a range of fields, including masters in management, certificates in management, bachelors of tropical agriculture, bachelors in fisheries and marine resources, diplomas in tropical agriculture and diplomas in fisheries.