Diana Overcomes Disability A Remarkable Journey of Resilience and Triumph (10)

Diana Overcomes Disability: A Remarkable Journey of Resilience and Triumph

Diana, a single mother of five in Madang's Usino District, has turned her cocoa block into a successful enterprise through World Vision's Usino Climate Smart and Inclusive Cocoa Project. This initiative equips her with financial literacy and farming skills, enabling her to ensure her children's future. With support from the Savings for Transformation Group, Diana strategically manages her earnings to meet her children's needs. Despite challenges, her cocoa block is both a financial lifeline and a source of empowerment, illustrating the profound impact of community projects, resilience, and support.

DISABILITY INCLUSION

Papua New Guinea

World Vision Papua New Guinea

 

 

Established in 1950, World Vision (WV) is an international Christian relief, development and advocacy organization, dedicated to working with children, families and their communities to overcome poverty and injustice, regardless of religion, race, ethnicity or gender.

World Vision Papua New Guinea (WVPNG) has been operating in Papua New Guinea (PNG) for over 40 years and can leverage the expertise of the global WV partnership to work with communities to overcome multi-faceted development challenges and deliver humanitarian assistance. WVPNG core programming covers the sectors of Education, Health, Livelihoods, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation, Social Cohesion and Peacebuilding, with an annual grant portfolio of USD$35 million under support from a range of institutional and multilateral donors. Relief support, preparedness and resilience building are also core parts of our work, including the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic response.

Our programming focus is spread across 12 of PNG’s 22 provinces, with field offices and staff in the 6 Provinces of National Capital District, Autonomous Region of Bougainville (ARoB), Morobe, Madang, Southern Highlands and Western Provinces; as well as another 7 provinces across PNG through our partners.

WVPNG works to ensure our strategy and approaches are in line with the Government of PNG’s strategy and priorities, with its geographical footprint being driven by our core values and commitment to the most vulnerable children and communities. We partner with communities, local civil society, the private sector, non-government organizations, faith-based groups, and governments at both national and local levels to deliver evidence-based quality programs with a strong emphasis on community empowerment and local ownership.

Our Impact

202,749

direct beneficiaries reached through programming

104,466

of those reached were girls and boys aged 0-18 years

22,328

were directly reached through campaigns

Our Areas of Focus

A child washing his hands

WATER SANITATION & HYGIENE

 

WVPNG works to increase access to sustainable clean drinking water; and improve sanitation and hygiene via Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS), Participatory Hygiene and Sanitation Transformation (PAST) and WaSH facilities installation.

WV also strengthens governance capacity to design, finance, deliver and sustain inclusive, resilient WASH services. World Vision is a cluster co-chair with UNICEF.

A woman from BEAN project standing in a field

LIVELIHOODS & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

 

WVPNG works to reduce poverty by encouraging savings, building sustainable income, improving access to finance, self-reliance development, integration with nutrition, and enhanced youth employment.

WV empowers individuals to achieve resilient sources of income for households and strengthens communities’ development via the layering of multiple projects.

An Elementary prep class with their class teacher during a lesson.

EDUCATION

 

WVPNG works to improve access to quality education for children by supporting students, teachers, caregivers, schools and the government.

WV is an active member of the Local Education Group and the Education Cluster, with strong working partnerships with the local education officials cultivated over time and a robust network of key partners.

Paula Arnold, case finding officer from Anglicare, assists a peer educator receive her transportation and communication allowance.

HEALTH : TB/HIV

 

WVPNG has been responding to TB and HIV for more than a decade and has been the Principal Recipient of the Global Fund to PNG from 2015 onwards.

This unique positioning has enabled WV to directly influence and impact the National programs of TB/ HIV and civil society partners working in PNG.

Caring For Nutrition (C4N) Project - TTC Training Helping Families

HEALTH: NUTRITION

 

WVPNG works to ensure children can reach full potential of their growth and development by addressing childhood (0- 5yrs) malnutrition and reducing illness, disability and death caused by vaccine preventable disease (VPD).

WV’s work is It is anchored on the National Health Plan (2021-2030) and PNG Vision 2050.

The image depict an awareness exercise by school children in Papua New Guinea’s Madang Province under the child focused Disaster Rick Reduction Project (CFDRR).

DISASTER MANAGEMENT & RELIEF

 

WVPNG works to reduce vulnerability and exposure of children and families to hazards and risks by adopting a community-based disaster risk management approach to strengthen the community’s resilience against disasters and local authority’s preparedness.

WV also provides efficient and responsive life-saving support to alleviate human suffering during crises, including floods, drought, earthquakes, pandemics, conflict etc.