Service delivery to rural areas an issue: Official

ABOUT 85 per cent of people in Papua New Guinea live in rural areas where service delivery and sustainability is an issue, an official says.
Executive director of The Voice Incorporated Maliwai Sasingian said the clean generation was a movement of young people who were willing to build PNG starting in the provinces and rural areas.
She said TVI’s third annual flagship leadership conference on Saturday was to strengthen the network of like-minded young people.
“Every year we have a theme for the annual leadership conference and this year’s is ‘the mountain’ which represents the alternative paradigm that we want to see, thus, it is all about establishing young people in truth,” Sasingian said.
She said the aim was for young men and women through their skills and endeavours would help bring change and development to the country.
The conference’s speakers spoke about their experiences and how they brought services to people in remote areas.
“We had two speakers, Dr David Mills and Jennifer Baing-Waiko who spoke to the young people of their message of service to the people,” she said.
Mills is the director of Enga baptist health services in Kompiam and founder of the rural doctor’s society and rural masters of medicine programme at the University of Papua New Guinea.
Baing-Waiko is the executive director of Save PNG Inc.
The two-day conference was attended by about 300 participants from Central, Lae and Madang.