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Helping local teachers
Papua New Guinean Highlander Ken Kemanu had two main goals while in Australia – to complete his Masters of Educational Leadership (Secondary Education) and to raise funds for his village. Kemanu, who graduated from Macquarie University in September, has now returned to his family in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea and his job as a lecturer at Dauli Teachers College. He is putting into practice the skills he developed through postgraduate study to better train local teachers. Kemanu wants to help his students teach more successfully as well as become effective leaders in their often isolated communities. The road to Macquarie University was long and hard. Kemanu’s parents raised pigs in the jungle to pay for his schooling and he then worked his way through undergraduate study. Thanks to a scholarship from Macquarie, as well as support from New Hope International, he was able to further his training in Australia. Kemanu’s vision is to help local villages, like the Pori Community of his childhood, to develop to a stage where young people will have a future there. “Without running water, electricity, accessible local schooling and a way to bring in some outside income, there is no future,” says Kemanu. “Our young people are all leaving, many ending up in the slums of Port Moresby and becoming trapped in even worse poverty. My country can grow and prosper if we provide basic education in the villages and local employment opportunities for our youth.” The Pori community, a collection of villages with about 20,000 people, has a basic school and clinic established by Australian missionaries in the 1960s. They have already started to help themselves by running an annual ‘Thanksgiving Day’ to raise funds for community projects by selling any excess crops they can grow. As a key member of a committee of local leaders, Kemanu helps supervise and prioritise the use of any development funds provided. Kemanu spent much of his spare time in Sydney speaking to schools and churches, raising awareness of the needs of his community. For more information about the Master of Educational Leadership program, visit http://www.aces.mq.edu.au/educ_st_pg_cw.asp December 2004 More Education stories here |
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