Youth sports programme starts in Port Moresby

PNG Sports Foundation and Trukai Industries will jointly run one of their programmes, the Trukai Youth Sports, in the National Capital District next Monday.
The programme has been a community sports education programme, targeting the community sports leaders in PNG since 1995.
Since its inception in 1995 with the support of Trukai Industries, the programme has spread throughout PNG and has trained more than 2,000 sports leaders.
The programme covers a wide range of activities, including basic sports administration, coaching, refereeing and first aid and has created overwhelming impact on the communities in PNG.
It is evident through the PNG Games where most of the trained people have taken part as coaches, referees and team managers.
The national programme manager Scott Vavine said that the training would be used to prepare leaders  for the 2012 PNG Games in Kokopo, East New Britain.