People
Living positive in PNG
Saturday, August 1, 2009, 8:36 pm | Reported by Alex White
At the moment that Joe’s life should have expired, it began. Barely alive he was found beaten and bruised, floating off the coast of Krangket Island like drift wood rolling with the waves. Joe’s story is not unique, especially as members of his family had put him there. It is not uncommon for communities to ostracise the HIV positive, but it is what Joe did next that makes him exceptional and made the possibility of “living HIV positive” in Papua New Guinea, seem like life after death.
Woman tells of surviving the Bougainville war
Saturday, August 1, 2009, 7:43 pm | Reported by Guillaume Benoist
Janet Rowaro, 25, returns to Bougainville in Papua New Guinea (PNG), after war tore her family apart when she was a child, forcing her to grow up without her mother.
Manam Settlement Outreach Program
Saturday, August 1, 2009, 7:30 pm | Reported by Anna Chisholm
Helping-out at a community level is a movement now in Papua New Guinea, and Anna Chisholm found out about a Christian students’ outreach program to needy villages — everything from spiritual messages to talk about topics like health, ethics, business, and developing tourism.
The art of the buai
Saturday, August 1, 2009, 7:06 pm | Reported by Robin O'Brien
Robin O’Brien wanders about where the betel nut fanciers chew their stuff.
Plans to implement trauma counselling training into curriculum at DWU
Wednesday, July 15, 2009, 12:50 pm | Reported by Anna Chisholm
Divine Word University (DWU) Madang is running a training program to prepare volunteers in PNG communities to help others who require counselling — a scheme intended to fill a great need throughout the country.
