Sponsored for Kokoda trip

Five young men from the Peninsula have been sponsored to take a trip through the Kokoda Track from Saturday, May 26.

The Bill James family from Sydney sponsored the group through the Duke of Edinburgh Award program, together with supervising adults, to complete the Kokoda Track experience over nine days.

The selection criteria required the participants to be from a troubled background with the trip focused on improving their communication and group work skills.

Jono and Jim Myers were selected to coordinate groups from the Central Coast and Sydney's PCYC.

They will combine with a group from Father Chris O'Rileys, Youth Off The Streets program.

"The boys, and especially, Jono and Jim, are training hard to improve their fitness for the hard slog over the mountains of New Guinea," said Graham Johnston of MacMasters Beach Surf Club.

Email, 9 May 2012

Graham Johnston, MacMasters Beach Surf Club