Company aims to provide professional babysitters

By CLARISSA MOI
A LOCALLY-owned placement agency, PNG Nannies, was established in 2016 to address an increase in the space of finding genuine and professional babysitters in the city.
PNG Nannies, which also took part in the Start-Ups convention in Port Moresby, is fully affiliated and endorsed by the Kumul Game Changers. The agency emerged during the Kumul Game Changers entrepreneurship boot camp in 2016 where they were tasked to come up with unique business ideas that solves a socio-economic problem.
At that time co-founder Lucy Afara was looking for a genuine and professional babysitter and that was an idea she developed.
Spokesperson Lester Seri Jr told The National that the agency provided basic child-minding services, housekeeping services and recently launched a nanny on-board service.
“So basically, PNG Nannies is a placement agency,” he said.
“The clients email their requirements on the specifics on the person they want.
“According to those requirements, PNG Nannies sources the candidates, screens and interviews them, runs through the child protection policy, the standard operating procedures, then introduces them to the clients.
“If the client agrees, the candidate then goes through a trial phase before getting them on a permanent basis.”
Seri said PNG Nannies was more than just a business as it built capacity before employment.