Chuave district in Chimbu Province has officially announced K1 million tuition fees for 338 students attending various tertiary institutions in the country and abroad.
District chief executive officer Marakus Warip said the funding was approved by the Chuave District Development Authority (DDA) under the leadership of the local MP and Minister for Environment, Conservation and Climate Change Wera Mori.
When presenting K130,000 for 52 students attending the PNG University of Technology (Unitech) in Lae last week, Mr Warip said K1 million has been paid to 23 different government institutions for 329 students in the country including nine others studying abroad.
He said due to the COVID-19 global pandemic affecting the country, the district with approval from Mori has released the funds for the benefit of parents of Chuave district to help them during this time of need to pay for their children’s tuition fees.
Mr Warip said in Morobe Province they have also done payments for students attending Lae School of Nursing (LSON), including Balob Teachers’ College (BTC) and will continue with Madang Province for Divine Word University (DWU), Madang Teachers’ College (MTC) and Technical College (MTC) and East New Britain Province (ENB).
We have also done the same for the National Capital District for students attending University of Papua New Guinea, the Port Moresby Technical College and Pacific Adventist University, including others.
– Marakus Warip
He said Chuave DDA had been allocating tuition fee funding for its students since 2012 until 2017 due to election and has come back again this year 2021 and will continue into the future.
Warip said the district this year has allocated K2,500 tuition fee for each student following the list from student leaders of various institutions throughout the country.