This year, the institute has been the first contestant sponsor, sponsoring 19-year-old Samantha Kuase to enter the beauty pageant.
Executive Director Edward Silva says their enthusiasm and involvement in the pageant is part of their outside of academic activity to nature and empower especially young women.
“When I look at it, there's a big vacuum in leadership in PNG. I have been told that from the inception of the parliament, there have more than a thousand parliamentarians but only a three ladies out of this many.
