Independent Power Producer (IPP) NiuPower Limited, through its Community Investment Program (CIP), has enabled the PNG LNG impacted villages in the Central province to benefit from health to education and water and sanitation services, initiated under their program.
According to the power company’s External Affairs Manager Mr. Wellington Bellawa, the company has a community responsibility towards the community, especially when their power plant project is situated on their land.
“Our benefit is that they enjoy looking after our project and the safety of the project is guaranteed, but that doesn’t mean to say that we do this because of that. It is our social responsibility to look after the project community,” he said.
Mr. Bellawa added that under the CIP, they provide support in education, health, sports, church activities, women’s group activities and agriculture.
Meanwhile, under the CIP the company just last week donated six 9, 000liters water tanks to Boera village and this Thursday 17th February, it will deliver six more of these water tanks to the community at Kido village.
NiuPower is a local independent or private power company that uses the Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) from the PNG LNG plant site outside Port Moresby city to generate electricity that it supplies to the city’s power grid.