Tembari children receive gifts, food worth K14,000

By Alphonse Porau
POOR children at the Tembari Care Centre in Port Moresby have received food and gifts worth about K14,000 from a church group.
Members of the Chinese Methodist Church in PNG visited the children at Oro settlement, 8-Mile, on Saturday.
It is the eighth-year the church has helped the centre which provides education and food to 120 children, mostly orphans or those from broken families, living there.
The centre’s founder and director Hayward Sagembo said it was through the support of such donors that the centre was able to look after the children.
Sagembo said the centre was started in 2003 and the Methodist Church and RH Foundation were ongoing supporters.
“We focus on developing children, with the target group being orphans,” he said.
“We try to help these children with the support of business houses. The issue of settlement children not going to school is big issue so we introduced the centre here to help them.”
Sagembo said 80 children from the orphanage attended school at 8-Mile, others attend schools outside 8-Mile.
He thanked the Methodist Church for coming early annually to give the centre a positive start to the school year.
President of the Social Caring Ministry of the Chinese Methodist Church Steven Yii said the aim for the ministry was to involve social caring.