Mul Baiyer DDA helps tertiary students

Mul Baiyer DDA representative presenting the cheque of K21,000 from the DDA to the Post Moresby Technical College Western Highlands Students leaders as the Mul Baiyer students look on (Image: Supplied)

Tertiary students from Mul Baiyer District studying at Port Moresby Technical College have thanked their local MP Jacob Kop Maki for helping pay their school fees this year.

The students say the support has eased the financial burden on their families and enabled them to focus more on their studies.

PomTech Western Highlands Students Association Vice President Samuel Kur, while receiving a K21,000 cheque from the Mul Baiyer District Development Authority, said the support has greatly helped their studies and thanked Mr Maki.

Mr Kur stressed Western Highlands does not have an extractive industry to support the province; however, he believes in developing the human resources it has.

" On behalf of the 21 Mul, Baiyer and Lumusa students attending PomTech this year, thank you MP Maki for making the funds available now to settle our school fee for this year."

" This will boost our performance in our studies and ease some of the burdens that most of our parents, being subsistence farmers, cannot afford to complete," Kur stressed.

Meantime, Mr. Maki's contribution forms part of his commitment to supporting human resource development in Mul Baiyer, ensuring students have access to quality tertiary education without being hindered by financial difficulties.

This is the second year now that the Mul Baiyer DDA under Jacob Maki's leadership has subsidized school fee for its tertiary Students attending various tertiary institutions around the country with a total of K3 million allocated by the DDA for this program only.

Each student received K1,000 towards their school fee subsidy.