TO serve people in the community is Margaret Bunabo’s passion.
Margaret, 24, from Malaita province, has been playing the role of a good leader from a young age.
She left high school in 2015 with completing Form four at Kolale High school but joined the Youth@ Work programme in Honiara in 2017 for six months.
“I completed the programme and I did my three months internship at the Youth @Work head office in Honiara as an admin officer,” Margaret said.
After completing the internship, Margaret stayed home for six months but got involved in activities in her community in Jericho.
She has shown great potential as a young leader, carrying out leadership roles in her small community and getting involved in ministry groups.
“Getting involved in little jobs and activities in my own community made me realise the different problems that youth and people in the community face daily,” she said.
Her activities made her aware of community youths who were uneducated and had dropped out of school, often leading them to alcohol and drugs.
“With these issue as one of the big problems in my community, I always dream to help in any way one day,” she said.
Margaret is the secretary for Jericho’s ‘Healthy Setting Committee’, treasurer for Jericho Youth Ministry and also is a Sunday school teacher at Jericho Sunday school ministry.
“Having involvement in all these leadership roles, I realise the potential I have which is carrying me on to whatever I could become in the future,” she said.
Margaret said that to deal with the community has become a passion for her.
In September, she started volunteering with Marie’s Private Clinic.
“My job as a volunteer is to go around with Marie’s Clinic team doing health surveys of women in communities around Honiara,” she said. “Our main focus is on women.”
She said that working with the program creator Dr Donna Wate made her very happy, especially when going out to communities and sharing information with women about their health and promoting awareness about breast cancer.
As a young woman she faced challenges in the field, she said.
“I have no qualifications in this field so the challenges are tough but I managed to go on because it is my passion to help people in the community.”
It is Margaret’s dream to become a nurse.
“Starting as a volunteer here at Marie’s clinic is a good start for me, it is like a door open to my future career as a young female who has not managed to complete my education.”
Margaret as a young female leader in her community has big dreams that one day her community will turn out to be one of the best communities in town.
“I have big dreams to help others like me in the communities and having gone this far, I am happy and am doing my best to strive to be a good leader one day,” she said.
