WIND OF CHANGE GRIPS PNG CAPITAL TO OPEN IT AS CENTRE OF VOLUNTEERS

TECHNICAL INSTITUTE PUTS ITS HANDS UP TO JOIN VOLUNTEERS IN THE CITY CLEAN-UP

PORT MORESBY: A technical Institute in Port Moresby’s Hohola suburb is putting its hands up to join volunteers in the city clean-up.

This is part of its effort to reciprocate assistance to the City Hall which gives scholarships to its students under NCD Governor Powes Parkop’s TVET and school-fee assistance scheme.

Students from the college posing for a photo

Executive director Thomas Phillar of Asia Pacific Institute of Applied Social, Economic and Technical Studies, said they wanted to be part of the changes taking place in the city.

He was speaking to students and other participants at the end of usual Walk and Yoga for Life this morning (August 26, 2018).

Mr Phillar said he was amazed to see the cleanliness of the city, giving positive feelings to residents.

In his speech, on the students’ behalf, he has requested Governor Parkop to assign dump trucks and allocate locations where they can start it.

He also called on him to direct the commission’s waste management unit to supply them with hand globes and other safety gear.

He described the governor as simple people’s leader who always takes time off his busy schedule to have fun, walk, chat and interact with the residents.

This trait is rare amongst elected leaders in the country, he added.

Executive Director Thomas Phillar 

“He is an amazing man who has amazing ideas and visions. He is really serious in transforming our city. Not long, he is going to transform the whole country,” he told them.

He said fellow residents have been voluntarily cleaning the city because they adored Mr Parkop’s leadership.

Direct Phillar further urged him to seek partnership with Port Moresby Chamber of Commerce so the graduates of his college can secure jobs.

When everyone earns an income, the crime rate declines, he said.

Governor Parkop assured the college that most of his programs are designed to up-skill residents including youths and provide them with employment opportunities, citing the Active City Development program, jointly-funded Urban Youth Employment Program and others.

He also responded favourably on their request on the clean-up, calling on other recipients of his scholarship and other programs to follow the example set by this school.

The volunteers are members of the Walk and Yoga for Life tribe under the NCD Active City Development program.

PORT MORESBY RESIDENTS URGED TO CUDDLE HEALTH, FITNESS AND WELLNESS TO BE PART OF THEIR LIFESTYLE, WAY OF LIFE

National Capital District Governor Powes Parkop is calling on city residents to make health, fitness and wellness to be part of their lifestyle and way of life.

People's governor Powes Parkop and participants of Walk and Yoga for Life doing basic Yoga stretches in Port Moresby

Mr Parkop yesterday morning (Sunday, August 05, 2018) used the Walk and Yoga for Life program at Paga Hill ring road to make this comment.

People's governor Powes Parkop and participants of Walk and Yoga for Life doing basic Yoga stretches in Port Moresby

“And that, if we make it part of our way of life or lifestyle, it will be successful other than just doing it occasionally on Sundays when we walk; on the week days we have yoga, kick boxing , acrobatics or other fitness classes. We must lift our life to be healthy, fit and well, and to have healthy lifestyle.

In this way, he said city residents can reap its benefits.

He has had to become the change they want to see in the city, he reiterated.

People's Governor Powes Parkop with other participants of Walk and Yoga for Life

He also called on others to do the same.

Mr Parkop testified that he had seriously embraced healthy lifestyle especially Walk and Yoga for his own good, so he can continue to provide prudent and sound leadership with an active, fit, healthy and well mind.  

“I have chosen to be in the right frame of mind to lead the city for change that we want to see in our city and the country,” he told thousands who participated in the WYFL.

Mr Parkop said he did this, so that the city residents can be motivated and inspired to follow his footsteps to live a high quality of life.

Participants of walk and Yoga for life doing basic Yoga stretches after the 8-Kilometre walk from Murray Barracks to Paga Hill Ring road

He admitted that it took him years to be better at it, saying they should not do it to impress him or others to gain favours.

If they are on this course, they will fail to sustain or make it become part of their lifestyle, he said. 

Governor Parkop went onto saying as part of his healthy lifestyle, he regularly visits his doctor for medical checks to ensure all his organs are in good health.

In this way, he said, he is aware of his blood pressure and status of each of his organs.

He further urged the residents to do the same, emphasizing its importance of saving them money from medication and preventing diseases or detecting problems affecting their organs at earlier stage than what can be regretted later when they are in their final stages.

According to him, he started practicing Walk and Yoga in 2014 when his weight was over 95 Kilograms, but now it was reduced to 83. 

Participants of walk and Yoga for life doing basic Yoga stretches after the 8-Kilometre walk from Murray Barracks to Paga Hill Ring road