There are times things don’t turn out the way they expect but they don’t look back. With the heart of a lion they keep progressing one step at a time. This is because their heart is in what they believe in and their motive is honourable.

Combining likeminded people to pursue a common aim is like fusing lodestars together. As the saying goes, two minds are better than one, and I suppose many minds are better still. SWA members Jimmy Drekore, Mathias Kin, Jimmy Awagl and Arnold Mundua are an invincible force.

Helping children to excel in education is building a pathway for a better nation. A country without educated people is not a nation but a barren land.

A nation of highly educated people is a nation full of gold and silver. It will prosper.

This is what the people in SWA believe and have sacrificed much in order to pursue the Simbu for Literary Excellence Program to help Simbu children excel in education so they can excel in life.

SWA members climb rugged mountains and cross ferocious rivers amidst scorching heat and bone-shattering cold to inform and spread the idea of Papua New Guinean literature and reading to students and teachers.

Taking a PMV (public motor vehicle) to one school, jumping on a police vehicle or into an ambulance to reach another and taking a truck back to base may seem a hassle but not for this group of indomitable hearts.

For the SWA leaders, getting students and teachers fully versed with their intentions is critical if they are to value Simbu for Literary Excellence and get involved in it. Communication is very important and a task that has to be accomplished by every possible means.

At the same time they present small gifts they carry with them and share fun and even shed tears with their audiences.

In the two years of this project, the publication of the Ku High School Anthology last year was a pinnacle and a benchmark among high schools in Papua New Guinea.

And SWA will produce another Anthology this year as the highpoint of its 2015 literary efforts and this will feature the writing of high and secondary school students to be delivered to schools as a perfect 40th independence gift … a productive and achievable project!