Three Bougainvillean university students have visited the Bougainville Copper Limited office in Port Moresby.
Two of the students, Benjamin Heriberth Noibio and Fabian Epota, came from the Pacific Adventist University that has a campus on the outskirts of the national capital.
They were joined by Leonard Fong Roka, who was in Port Moresby to receive his Crocodile Prize Award for Papua New Guinea’s Book of Year, Brokenville.
After spending two hours getting acquainted with Port Moresby’s traffic, the students and Bougainville 24 editor Ben Jackson arrived at the BCL Office, where they were greeted by staff and shown around.
“Your visit to PAU was an outstanding and very special day for me as a writer from Bougainville,” said Mr Noibio.
“We reached our destination safely despite the traffic,” he added with a smile.
“I enjoyed the trip and the discussion we had in the BCL office.”
It was an opportunity for the Pacific Adventist University students to learn more about BCL and Bougainville 24.
For Benjamin Noibio and Fabian Epota it was also a chance to meet a role model in Leonard Roka, a seasoned writer with three books to his name.
The two were inspired by the visit, with Epota joining the Bougainville 24 team and Noibio now considering writing a book of his own.
“I am now writing my first book, triggered by your visit and our talk at the BCL office,” Mr Noibio said.