CHILDREN chanting “mipla laikim skul” (we want school) in the Nete Lyaim community of the Lagaip-Porgera in Enga touched National Cultural Commission (NCC) executive director Steven Kilanda who pledged to ensure the people received services. The little-known Nete Lyaim region is on the border of Enga and Sepik and there has been no government services in the area over the last 45 years. The only government activity was the cultural festival last week. There is no road and it takes about a day-and-a-half to walk on bush tracks from Mulitaka, the nearest station. NCC and Tourism Cultural Commission officers walked to Nete Lyaim while Kilanda and other officers travelled by helicopter on Wednesday.
Kilanda said since there were no schools, children were taught traditional skills as well as gardening and hunting. He said NCC was the first government agency to make contact with them through the festival. “We issued them a certificate and registered their event in the calendar and it will happen annually,” Kilanda said. “We are liaising with the rural airstrip agency to upgrade and rebuild the airstrip. “There was an airstrip used by the missionaries to bring the gospel in the 1970s but it was closed so we will assist them to upgrade it.” TheNational/PNGEducationnews Next : Grade 11 Selection Notices Comments are closed.
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