Women’s bus project under way

 A SURVEY is being carried out for the Women-Only Bus Programme at Gerehu market, Gordon market and primary schools in the National Capital District. 

The Women-Only Bus Programme aimed to provide safer transport for women and girls in NCD and help reduce violence against them. 

It is designed to complement the NCDC-UN Women Safe Cities project that is working to make Port Moresby’s markets safer.  

Rachel Terrell-Perica, an intern with UN Women, has been working closely with ward councillors Mato Posu and Patricia Mamele in coordinating and executing research in Gerehu and Gordon. 

Terrell-Perica said women and girls faced high risk danger when using public transport. 

“These risks range from drivers not completing their route to women being sexually harassed when getting on and off the PMVs.”