Working to improve PNG literacy

A charity working to improve literacy among Papua New Guinea children says it's hoping to have opened 15 libraries by the end of this year.

Working to improve PNG literacy

A charity working to improve literacy among Papua New Guinea children says it's hoping to have opened 15 libraries by the end of this year.

Buk Bilong Pikinini has just opened its 13th library in a settlement just outside Port Moresby.

 

It says it's hoping that the next two libraries will include one on Manus Island.

Australian-based Buk Bilong Pikinini founder, Anne-Sophie Hermann told Sonja Heydeman in some areas, literacy levels in PNG are at just five per cent.