Miss Pacific Island Pagaent

"This was my wonder when I first came to know Ruby. Her beauty made you turn to have a second glance, and you’d catch yourself staring admirably. She always looked like she had walked straight out of a magazine, even on a ‘bad hair day’.
“When I think of Ruby’s character, she was a wise lady with maturity beyond her years. Her confidence and intelligence was not loud or boastful, it emanated naturally with how she held her conversations, her poise, and how she holds it all together even under extreme pressure.

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.