PNG NATIONAL GENERAL ELECTIONS - MOLKA GIBSON KUM

 

Molka Gibson Kum with supporters at the Team PNC Jiwaka rally at Wara Mombol field, Banz.

PNC BACKS MOLKA FOR ANGLIMP SOUTH WAGHI

PEOPLE'S National Congress Party (PNC) candidate for Anglimp-South Waghi open Molka Gibson Kum is ready to take his servant leadership quality up another notch.

Known widely as champion of the grassroots people because of his generous approaches in helping underprivileged members of the community that are regarded as the lost, the last and the least, Mr. Kum is considered a dark horse for the seat.

With his wife Juni, they started from scratch, first with a guesthouse at Minj along the Highlands Highway and then they established a charitable organisation known as Molka Lodge Helping Hand.

The organisation had reached out to the needy members of the community like the orphanages, widows, the unemployed youths, sick patients, church groups, sports groups, youth groups, market vendors, and the community at large.

Kum, Juni and the Helping Hand team have always been motivated by this principle: 'True richness is not measured by how fat the bank account is but by the love that comes from the heart to serve others.'

Servant - Molka Gibson Kum stopping on his way to greet children.

For more than ten years, Kum and his team have humbly done things most do not find pleasure in, such as cleaning dirt and removing stench at public places like markets.

Molka Lodge has grown over the years and has created employment for school drop outs as well as sponsored them in skilled job training.

The lodge has committed a financial suicide when Mr. Kum and Juni made a bold decision to totally ban the sale of liquor in 2015 as they were convicted that alcohol would take souls to hell and spoil the younger generation.

To cut the story short, Kum and his strong wife, the beautiful Juni, a teacher at Nondugl Secondary School have lived a life dedicated to serving the disadvantaged.

They are devout members of the Evangelical Brotherhood Church (EBC). They look after their own children as well as orphanages they adopted. 

The destitute, the suppressed and the jobless look up to them as a pillar of hope. The couple own a bakery and a brick laying machine that employs youths.

It was a real eye-opener as Mr. Kum, who is a member of a different church denomination (EBC) helped to build a church for members of the Church of the Nazarene at Minj with his bricks.

The 51-year-old visits patients at Kudjip Nazarene Hospital every Sunday and donates them with 300 plastic of scones to all the wards.
He has been doing this since 2017.

He normally sits around with the patients, cleaners and the nurses and chats with them just to put a smile on their faces - a gesture he displays to show his love and compassion for the sick.

He inspires children and youths to always have high hopes in life and stresses to them about the importance of education.

He speaks at school graduations and touch students with his motivational speeches as well as sponsoring the dux prizes for the top performing students.

"I believe in education as the only way to change a person's life and the country as a whole."

From 2014 until now, Kum had volunteered to clean up rubbish at Minj and Kudjip markets.

The kind-hearted man had built a proper market and delivered it to the mothers and vendors at Minj vegetable market in 2016.

He also built a couple of foot bridges for the local tribes at the headwaters of Minj river.
During dry periods, Molka Helping Hand usually cart fresh water and supplies them to the community.

All his good deeds have won respect, praise and admiration from those within and the wider community.

Molka Gibson Kum donating scones at Kudjip Nazarene Hospital.

He contested the Anglimp-South Waghi open seat in the 2017 election and tallied second to the eventual winner, Joe Kuli, the incumbent MP.

As soon as he lost, he continued on doing what he was doing in the last five years, extending it to ten years.

"I am not pretending to help people. It is the reflection of the love I have in my heart.
"Life is too short. I want to help as many people as I could because one day I will stand before God and give an account of my life.
 
"The satisfaction I obtain when I see smiles on the faces of the people I touch with kindness is much more than all the happiness I can find in life.
"I am confident in winning this seat and serve people to the best of my ability until my last breath."

Kum's leadership and his charisma to serve his people with commitment and dedication had caught the attention of former Prime Minister, MP for Ialibu-Pangia and leader of PNC Party Peter O'Neill to endorse him as the party's official candidate.

O'Neill attended the rally of his candiates for Jiwaka on June 16) at Banz and was given a rousing welcome.
 Kum leaves us with this message: "To know yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. The mission to serve others is a life-long ambition.

"I am on a mission to lead the people of Anglimp-South Waghi into prosperity with total fairness and honesty."

Molka Gibson Kum with his children in Minj.