AN educational foundation run by a Papua New Guinean and based in Maine, United States (US), will take six students for studies at community colleges in December. Jackson Yer, who founded the Yer Foundation, said last month in Mendi, Southern Highlands, where a branch school and branch of the foundation was established midyear. Yer said his aim was help develop the country’s human resource through education for PNG students in the US. “We give a second chance to students who want to study abroad and who pass certain criteria, the first batch has graduated and this will be a second batch,” he explained.
Member for Mendi-Munihu, Raphael Tonpi, allocated K150,000 to the Yer Foundation to complete setting up its office in Mendi. The Mendi development authority pledged a donation next year and onwards to help with fees and expenses for the travelling students. Yer confirmed that the six students are from Southern Highlands and would be studying science, arts and business courses. “Six students have successfully graduated with their bachelors and are working in the US and in PNG and this is the second batch who will be travelling,” he said. Yer said the foundation programme was open to all Southern Highlanders and they needed to meet the requirements to apply for a scholarship. “We will start with students and unfortunate young ones in our province and then spread to other provinces,” Yer said. TheNational / PNG Education news Also read Comments are closed.
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