Youths need a second chance, official says

Disadvantaged youths, especially boys in Port Moresby, must be given a second chance in life to complete their formal education to earn a decent life, a City Mission official says.
The marketing manager for City Mission Elizabeth Gonol said most crimes in Port Moresby were committed by men basically to feed their family and the rate would drop if they had a proper job.
“Most of these men on the streets are forced into criminal activities in order to sustain their family,” she said.
She commended the leaders, especially NCD  Governor Powes Parkop, for initiating the youth employment programme and other non-profitable organisations like City Mission for enhancing these youths’ chances with basic life skills to help them secure jobs.
PNG City Mission is one particular non-profitable organisation that picks  young boys off the streets and helps mould them physically, spiritual and mentally  to find a decent life.
The mission tries to mould them in all aspects of life, teaches them basic courses in literature and vocational training and then helps them find permanent jobs.
She said the centre, upon picking the boys from the street, scrutinised then sorted them into different phases, depending on the level of education they had.
There are four phases, which include, literacy education for the ones that do not have any form of education.
The boys are taught how to read and write, apart from cooking and cultivating land.
The second and third phases involve the technical and vocational training in carpentry and welding.
After that the boys are marketed for on-the-job training where sometimes they secure permanent employment.