Youths from Wawin in the Nawaeb district of Morobe have organized a weeklong sports tournament to celebrate with Papua New Guinea's 50th Independence Anniversary. Unity Congregation youths from Dingsu village in Wawin hosted a soccer tournament, which attracted 20 men's teams and seven women's teams, who registered and took part in the weeklong tournament which started on Monday. Teams came as far as Bundi camp in Lae, Lower Watut in Huon Gulf district, and Situm on the other side of Nawaeb. Unity Youths Congregation President, Bani Kanibe said the purpose of the tournament is to raise funds for youths who are members of Boana Evangelical Lutheran Church. "Under our youths five-star program, we have social services which is to engage youths in sports, music and mini small medium enterprise activities, which have been a missing gap." "This tournament and other activities we have planned to host, is to generate income to actually implement the five-star program." "Our youths through church run programmes were being kept intact which had seen minimal law and order problems in our community," Kanibe said. Tournament coordinator, Bob John said that after more than 10 years of absence in hosting tournaments in the area, they hosted this tournament to help raise funds for the youths. "We encountered trouble free since the tournament started, and we expect a good turnout by this Saturday to play finals." "We haven't received any support from business houses or government to host this tournament, but we trust this tournament will end on high note," John said.