Youths throughout Papua New Guinea are encouraged to identify their full potential to contribute positively to the country’s development.
The PNG Em Mi Yah Campaign under the National Strategy for Responsible, Sustainable Development in PNG (StaRS) is engaging people especially youths to support the Strategy.
This is by making their own personal commitments to responsible, sustainable development.
StaRS is the roadmap to ensure the country’s rich natural resources and development opportunities benefit all, today and tomorrow.
PNG EmMi Yah! Campaign team member Anaseini Vesikula said a lot of times youths don’t understand the potential that they have.
Vesikula said because they’re young, they think that they cannot achieve a lot of things but there’s so much hidden potential and talent they have and sometimes it takes years to realise those potentials.
“With the modern technology, youths are now more advanced than in the past and are more exposed to the outside world.
“Today with so much happening and the opportunities that are out there, youths have to grasp those opportunities and they need to know what is out there and use it positively.
“Youths must learn to use the modern technology like social media to promote responsible sustainable development in their own little ways,” Vesikula said.
Meantime, PNG Em Mi Yah campaign aims to move the country from the village to the heights of government, on to the path of responsible, sustainable development.
The new development path promotes good leadership and governance, shared prosperity, peace and harmony, environmental protection, equality and stable population.