ABC Radio managed to link up with Sheila Harou, Chairperson of the Bushfire Appeal Committee and President of the Morobe Chapter of the PNG Australia Alumni Association and the Mayor of Bega Valley Shire Council, Sharon Tapscott, on a video call which they have put on Facebook -  
Listening to the call, is very touching.  Thank you ladies and to the wonderful, generous people of Lae.
 
Sheila Harou (3rd from left) and organisers of the bushfire appeal in a virtual meeting
 
"Australian community ravaged by bushfire shocked by PNG donation of more than $60,000".  In Papua New Guinea many people earn less than a dollar a day. But that didn't stop one community from donating tens of thousands of dollars to an Australian town badly affected by the Black Summer bushfires. 
 
Please click on https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-08/merimbula-receives-bushfire-donation-from-png/12531970 to read this amazing story from the ABC News.