Effective Communication for Fostering Positive outcomes to at-Risk Children and Youth in Mining Impacted Communities in PNG: A Case Study of Special Mining Lease (SML) Communities in Porgera Gold Mine in Enga Province, Papua New Guinea

This study focused on the relationship between effective communication and how it can help foster positive outcomes for children and youths impacted by mining activities and influences in mining communities of Papua New Guinea with a particular focus on Porgera Gold Mine in the Enga Province. The study objectively sought to examine the mining impacts, influences, and activities contribute to juveniles safety in Special Mining Lease mining communities in focused to Porgera; to assess how children and youths in Mining communities become socially and physically impacted; and to find out what factors generated illegal trespassing into mine site, commonly thought to be either to steal mine properties in particular to things that can be lifted including gold. The study employed a descriptive and correlational research design. Both quantitative (questionnaire) and qualitative (interviewing) data collection approaches were used. The findings of the study were that strong positive relationships (60% and 54%) existed between daily trespassing into the mine site and weekly and two time-week trespassing into the mine site, which shows children and youths regularly do illegal trespass into the mine site. This activity has been alsoalso been shown to be a causal factor of children leaving schooling at early ages. The study recommends that New Porgera Limited (NPL) should collaborate with the government, community and and community to develop a comprehensive monitoring system and the urgent need for understanding juvenile management methods with effective communication for a better future of the SML children and youths.