The building and its surrounding environment were well kept and I made a small prayer at the sight of the building and thanked Australian taxpayers for allowing their government to build such a wonderful dormitory and other infrastructure for the university.

While I was working, one of the participants approached me. I found out later that she is Amanda Yeou (pictured), 19 years old this year. She told me she is a first year student in Social and Religious Studies at the university.

Having listened to her for a minute I knew she was an open person who was eager to meet and talk to people.

Amenda is from Osol and Wutung village in the West Sepik Province. Her father is an information technology engineer who works with PNG Air Services and her mother is an accountant who works with a HLB Niugini.

Amenda says she inherited her Catholic faith from her parents, who, as a child, she would follow to church at weekends and help out in any way she could. She fondly recalls the days she would imitate the prayers of divine mercy and others.

She attended elementary, high and secondary schools in Port Moresby and Morobe Province. She thought of becoming a human rights lawyer in her secondary schooling. However, she was accepted to do Social and Religious Education at DWU. S

Amanda still maintains her dream of becoming a lawyer and tells me the psychology and social work courses she is doing in her current degree program will be a stepping stone to pursue a law degree in future.

She also tells me she likes the community services component of her program at DWU. She uses the opportunity to visit sick children in hospitals, orphanages and assist with church activities.

She also takes part in a Madang inter-tertiary institutions soccer competition which has been sponsored by the European Union and is called the EU Cup.

The mention of EU-Cup made me think of the European soccer competition I would normally watch on TV and I smiled to myself.