Inspired by intervention from the Klinpela Komuniti project, Angela rallied a charitable donation from the community members to support the purchase of cement for the construction of toilet slabs.

The plastic compound now has an entire household of over 30 households with safe toilets, installed with Sato pans.

More than 90 Morobe health sector workers have completed practical training to boost immunization coverage and reduce the spread of vaccine-preventable diseases in the province.

Participants improved their ability to administer new vaccines and manage the logistics of immunization outreaches, which will help to reduce illness, disability, and death caused by vaccine-preventable diseases like polio, measles, tetanus, and others.

By 2020, the Accelerating Immunization and Health Systems Strengthening program aims to increase national immunization coverage from 30 percent to more than 80 percent – the recommended rate to reduce and prevent illness, disability, and deaths.

The impacts of diseases like polio, tuberculosis, hepatitis, and measles can last a lifetime and for new mother Sophia this was a major motivation to get her baby immunized. 

Vaccine-preventable diseases can lead to disabilities or death – depriving people of the ability to fulfill their potential as contributors to their families, communities, and country.

World Vision in Papua New Guinea (WVPNG) has joined the government of Papua New Guinea to prevent COVID-19 in the Western Province of the country. The Western Province is border province where Papua New Guinea shares a sea border with Australia.

The PNG Government passed a bill to extend the PNG's state of emergency for another two months due to COVID-19 outbreak. “I'm feeling bored at home. I miss my friends. It's been so long already, when will this end,” says 12-year old Ruthie.

World Vision's Child-focused Disaster Risk Reduction project in Madang Province, Papua New Guinea works with children in schools to educate them on how to protect themselves during disasters.

Edward Kamuai is a lead cocoa farmer, buyer, and distributor in World Vision's Productive Partnerships in Agriculture project in Bougainville. 

As a TB treatment supporter, our role is to take care and love our patients, smiles Musato. She was once a TB patient who was cured and now works as a TB treatment Supporter with World Vision in Daru, Western Province, Papua New Guinea.

In March 2018, a month after the 7.5 magnitude earthquake devastated the Highlands Region in Papua New Guinea, I was deployed as an Emergency Logistics Officer to assist in the relief efforts of World Vision.

In 2018, World Vision responded to the call to assist survivors of the 7.5 magnitude earthquake in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea. One year after, with funding support from the New Zealand Aid Programme, World Vision was able to address the water, sanitation and hygiene needs of 22 communities around the Mt. Bosavi area, protecting the health and well-being of men, women and children in the affected areas.

This year’s theme for the UN certified International Day of Rural Women is, “Sustainable infrastructure, services and social protection for gender equality and the empowerment of rural women and girls”. Gender equity and the empowerment of women and children is a priority area for projects initiated by World Vision and its partners in PNG, to in turn support the development aspiration of the Government of PNG.