Ramu NiCo’s Coastal Pipeline Landowners Women’s Association (CPL WA) from the coast of Rai Coast District in Madang Province will participate in the inaugural CANCONEX in Lae Morobe Province as one of the successful association along the projects corridor area.
As a successful women landowner group amongst many groups, the CPL WA comprises of three zones that are Bugati, Marika and Siroi, as well as 3000 active registered members who have successfully ventured into financially viable projects or businesses.
These projects or businesses have come to fruition from the portion of royalty appropriated to the women group. The portion, in most cases, is used as capital to acquire loans from the People’s Micro Bank branch in Madang to buy trucks and dinghies used as public motor vehicles (PMVs) serving the locals within the mining tenement area, venture into other small to medium enterprises (SMEs).
The expo is set to be held at the Papua New Guinea University of Technology (PNGUoT) in Lae, Morobe Province from the 28th to the 30th of August, which Ramu NiCo is also a gold sponsor for the hosting of the event.
Ramu NiCo Management (MCC) Limited will attend and participate in the first-ever Community Affairs and National Content Conference and Expo (CANCONEX) with the theme of “Promoting National Participation for Sustainable Communities.”
With the encouragement of the President of the PNG Chamber of Mines and Petroleum, Anthony Smare, the conference will be an opportunity for participants to share experience and learn from each other, make new connections, see opportunities and experience. Ramu NiCo saw fit that it features one of the best performing and successful landowner groups from the four (4) impact communities to represent their fellow landowner groups.
The CPL WA has projects or businesses that have come to fruition from the portion of royalty appropriated to the women group. The successful Women Association from the Ramu NiCo Project in Madang Province is one of the fruitful associations that Ramu NiCo has seen being an active association apart from all the associations in the project’s corridor. Thus, Ramu NiCo thinks highly of this successful women group and other landowner groups coming from afar to attend the CANCONEX.
