Kariha becomes UNICEF ambassador
BY FRANKLIN KOLMA
THE United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund’s country office announced the engagement of Miss PNG and Miss Pacific Islands Leoshina Kariha as its first ever Youth Advocate.
During the unprecedented announcement held at the Grand Papua Hotel in Port Moresby, UNICEF’s regional director for East Asia and the Pacific region Ms Karin Hulsholf officially made it known that Miss Kariha would now champion the cause for children’s rights.
Ms Hulsholf told the Post Courier that young Miss Kariha had all the qualities needed to be a youth advocate for UNICEF and that it was these traits added with the objectives she had as the PNG and Pacific pageant queen that brought about the decision to make her an advocate.
“Leoshina is a very vibrant young woman and we chose her because much of what she aspires to do and bring to PNG women are along the lines of what UNICEF has been working at promoting.
“We are getting behind her because we know she will help to bring the values of UNICEF to PNG and the world in especially young people,” said Mr Hulsholf. In her acceptance speech, Miss PNG-Pacific Islands thanked UNICEF for making her the first ever youth advocate adding that the roles of being a youth advocate resonated a great deal with what the local and regional pageantries were all about. “The pageant provides a platform to advance young women and develop them into leaders…encouraging them to raise their voices on issues affecting their lives such as women’s empowerment, climate change and gender equality,” said Leoshina.
Miss Kariha said that UNICEF was an organisation that stood for the wellbeing of children, youth and women and that these groups were still very much in need of support.
“These are the groups whose voices are not heard enough and more needs to be done with them and for them,” added the young lass.
She concluded by thanking Ms Karin and the UNICEF PNG team for their confidence in her adding that she looked forward to working with them in the coming months.
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