Female students

The program is spearheaded by the Department of Education in partnership with the Department of Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology, managed by Save the Children PNG through funding by Global Partnerships for Education and partners including BSP Group, Newcrest Mine and JICA.

The donors and implementers of the BEST of PNG programme arrived in Kokopo on Thursday 1^st June and received by a small number of students’ future beneficiaries of the programme at the Tokua airport.

With a generous donation from New Crest Mining and the Global Partnerships for Education, 33 female students were selected to be recipients of the laptops and with additional assistance from Bank South Pacific five more girls were awarded similarly.