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31st January, 2022.

GENERAL NOTICE
This notice serves to inform parents and guardians of students, and students in Hohola Burns Peak Community, who are currently studying in Gr. 8, 10, and 12 that GWU Mentoring will be facilitating ongoing voluntary (free) mentoring services every weekends throughout this academic year 2022.

About Us: GWU (God Will Uplift) Mentoring is a newly established non-profit organization dedicated to promoting and fostering education in the suburbs and settlements of Port Moresby. We provide free and voluntary mentoring services, including coaching classes, expert advices, study tactics, time management, and self-discovery sessions to students, especially those in grades 8, 10, and 12 to prepare them for their National Examinations, as well as for challenges the real world poses. Our primary drive is to give back to the community, and improve living standards and alleviate poverty in the much abandoned areas of Port Moresby. Hence, we strive to instill in interested students a sense of purpose, and giving them hope of believing in their dreams and pursue them to reach the threshold of their potentials.

Registration Details.
Registrations for our pioneer year 2022 is now open from 1st February to 13th February 2022. Registration Forms can be collected at Francis Potape’s Tradestore (Bluestore Yagari Corner) or via our social media platforms upon enquiry.

Enrollment Requirements:
• Fully completed Registration Form
• A copy of your 2021 academic report cards.
• 2x ID size current photo.
• A non-refundable registration fee of K20. (All registration fees collected will be used to purchase a whiteboard, whiteboard markers, canvas, and other much needed resources)

Additional Info.
• Apart from the registration fee (K20) charged, this mentoring service is FREE, however you will be required to photocopy or print learning materials at your own cost, and provide your own stationaries as well.

• Due to very limited capacity, and for a start, ONLY the first 10 students from each grades (8, 10, and 12) to show interest and register will be formally accepted into the organizations registry.

• Registration closes for each grade once full capacity of 10 students each are fully registered, or the deadline date (13th Feb, 2022) is reached.

28/01/2022

Every year, the number of school dropouts in Papua New Guinea keeps on accumulating and accumulating at an alarming rate. Although, there have been attempts to alleviate this issue, not much impact has been evident as yet. In fact, the statistics are worsening every year.
For instance, according to an article titled ‘Number of School dropouts in PNG worrying’, posted in PNG Education News website (https://lnkd.in/gXbAJduA) on 31st December 2020, outlines that only 9,371 out of the 27,143 grade 12 students who applied for places in tertiary institutions for next year (2021) have been accepted. That implies that, 17,772 grade 12s have been deserted by the system in that year (2020) alone. When including the dropouts from grade 8s, and 10s into the picture, it is a tragic outcome for a developing country that is infested by corruption and is at the brink of economic collapse.
Sadly, the statistics have almost doubled in 2021 academic year, which resulted in 137,769 grade 8s, 74,982 grade 10s and 31,817 grade 12s dropped out of the formal education system. That is an awful amount of drop outs accumulating to the pre-existing figures from the precedent years (2020, 2019, 2018, etc.). One can provide enough reasons to justify the scary increase, and among them includes the Covid 19 surges, however, they cannot justify, nor can they fix the broken dreams and disrupted futures of these students who go down as mere statistics in the records.
Often times, these shattered population becomes a liability to the government, and a threat to the society as they struggle in the poverty bubble, and informal sectors. The country’s education system needs a serious facelift, as education is the ultimate tool to drive any form of development, and also can address other issues like lawlessness, drugs, street vending, and prostitution, to name a few. Therefore, education is more powerful, as they say “Knowledge is Power”, and regardless of our living standards, some level of decent education may be the only chance we have to cope with in this ever-changing world.

ONLY 9,371 out of the 27,143 grade 12 students who applied for places in tertiary institutions for next year have been accepted. Given the workings of the formal education system, 17,772 students...