Forum Essay Winner To Meet Pacific Leaders
Forum Essay Winner to meet Pacific Leaders
3 Oct 2005 23:32:43
A Solomon Islands student has won a regional essay competition aimed at promoting greater cooperation among Pacific Island countries, Forum Secretary General, Greg Urwin, announced today.
"Alwyn Danitofea's entry describes the diversity of the region and suggests how some of the challenges facing island countries might be overcome by working together more closely," Mr Urwin said.
Mr Danitofea is an undergraduate at the University of the South Pacific, and will get to meet Pacific Islands Forum Leaders when they gather in Papua New Guinea next month for their annual summit.
He also shares the first prize of FJD5,000 with USP.
Although there was to have been one winner, the judges of the Pacific Plan Youth Competition recommended that the entry by the runner-up, Lisa Linga from Papua New Guinea, deserved a prize as well.
Ms Linga will now share a FJD2,500 prize with her school, Grace Memorial Secondary School in Bulolo, Morobe province, Papua New Guinea.
Both winners will be funded to travel to Port Moresby in late October at the time of the Forum Leaders meeting, as part of an effort to promote public awareness of the value of regional cooperation.
Forum Secretariat, Suva
19 September 2005
3 Oct 2005 23:32:43
A Solomon Islands student has won a regional essay competition aimed at promoting greater cooperation among Pacific Island countries, Forum Secretary General, Greg Urwin, announced today.
"Alwyn Danitofea's entry describes the diversity of the region and suggests how some of the challenges facing island countries might be overcome by working together more closely," Mr Urwin said.
Mr Danitofea is an undergraduate at the University of the South Pacific, and will get to meet Pacific Islands Forum Leaders when they gather in Papua New Guinea next month for their annual summit.
He also shares the first prize of FJD5,000 with USP.
Although there was to have been one winner, the judges of the Pacific Plan Youth Competition recommended that the entry by the runner-up, Lisa Linga from Papua New Guinea, deserved a prize as well.
Ms Linga will now share a FJD2,500 prize with her school, Grace Memorial Secondary School in Bulolo, Morobe province, Papua New Guinea.
Both winners will be funded to travel to Port Moresby in late October at the time of the Forum Leaders meeting, as part of an effort to promote public awareness of the value of regional cooperation.
Forum Secretariat, Suva
19 September 2005
