Miss Pacific Island Pageant PNG has announced its third contestant, less than a week after the announcement of Miss Pacific Balance Fund.
Italpreziosi, a Port Moresby based gold refining company, has for the second year, come on board as a contestant sponsor, this time for Dorothy Elliot.
The 25-year-old of mixed Central and Milne Bay Province, works at the Institute of Business Studies (IBS).
Dorothy is an advocate of education within family being an important tool to groom good citizens, saying it starts with the guidance of either parents or guardians.
She enters the pageant to be cultural ambassador by empowering talented and young people on a larger scale of all walks of life on the importance and validity of culture and tradition and other major issues affecting PNG and the rest of the Pacific Island nations.
“I believe going through this journey will expose true beauty from within,” Dorothy said.
Italpreziosi Operations Manager, Malen Dimaculangan said after being involved last year, she personally saw how the entrants changed over the period.
“I see she’s a bit shy and I want her to improve her confidence because I see that she has something to offer. I see that she will become somebody after realising what she’s worth,” Malen said.
Miss Italpreziosi 2016 will be engaged with Luania Temu of U’i-tiki Fashions, to be her stylist leading up to the crowning.
“It’s a very humbling experience and I think that we can both help each other in terms of empowering each other.
“Events like this give opportunities to everyone involved, not just the contestant. People don’t really see everything that happens behind the scene and I think it has a lot of opportunities for people not only in the industry but small business like myself as well to develop our art and also to give back as well to our country,” Lauania said.
(L-R) Designer Luania Temu, director Italpreziosi Mario Buracchi, Miss Italpreziosi 2016 Dorothy Elliott, Italpreziosi operations manager Malen Dimaculangan and MPIP PNG deputy chairperson Molly O'Rourke.