Donations are still pouring in for the Hanuabada fire appeal.
Two separate fire incidents, one on Saturday and another this morning, have left close to 500 people homeless.
By 3pm this afternoon, more organisations, including Rotary of Boroko, the Red Cross, Mondo Clothing, Pure Water and China-PNG friendship association, came with donations of cash and kind.
The fire appeal committee hopes to raise at least K2.5million.
"One house costs about K60,00 to build. The donations reached K190 000 already. This will cover for three houses. We have 15 more," said community leader Dadi Toka Jnr.
He says an account has already been set up with four representatives from the affected families as signatories.
"BSP was very kind to put in K10,000 as soon as they opened the account. Another big donation was by the China-PNG friendship association today with K100,000," he said.
The appeal committee is co-chaired by Toka Jnr, Samuel Boe Lohia and a few more volunteers.
Lohia said: "This appeal is a standard disaster coordination. We have people taking care of food, of money donations.
“We want to discourage the idea of people saying these fires are staged because families have been displaced and are sleeping outside.
“We want to keep the atmosphere positive.”