By MATTHEW VARI
WITH the growing number of children begging on the streets of Port Moresby and other cities and towns around the country- the government has indicated that it will that will be tabled to cabinets soon.
Minister for Community Development, Religion and Youth, Delilah Gore, made her department’s intentions known in tackling the issue when asked a series of questions on the issue by NCD Governor Powes Parkop on curbing the trend and regulating orphanages.
“My department is working on a bill that will be tabled in cabinet soon- it is called ‘Lukaut Pikinini Act’, that will cover the loss that will help welfare officers and our partners who are looking after these children, to govern them to help look after these children,” Minister Gore said.
“There was a study done on street children in the city (Port Moresby) and it proved that street children, not all children that are seen on the street are orphans.”
“99 percent of children are not orphans- their parents deliberately put them on the street so that these children can fend for the family.”
The act that will go through will be tabled in parliament in the next session, which, the minister urged all MPs to support.
“The NCD welfare office will also be governed by this law to look after these children. It will lead the welfare office to get all these children and putting them in a hone and partners currently looking after children and parents who are putting children on the street will be prosecuted.”
“Not only in Port Moresby but we are having in our big cities and towns where parents breed children and leave them on the street.”
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