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.
In Papua New Guinea, we work with various partners in a grant-funded context to improve the well-being of the most vulnerable children, including their families, and communities. We help bridge the gap between basic services and communities’ priority needs, and work to transform people’s mindsets and behaviours to help them take ownership of their own development.
We work with communities, local civil society organisations, businesses, non-government organisations, faith-based groups, and national and local level government to deliver multiple programs, namely Tuberculosis and HIV treatment and management, maternal, newborn, child health, and nutrition (MNCHN), water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), education (early childhood care and development), livelihoods and resilience, child protection, reducing gender-based violence, and disaster risk reduction including climate change adaptation.
In the past three years, World Vision directly assisted 154,148 people (including 66,933 children) through our various projects across 15 out of 22 provinces in the country.
See the ways that we are making a positive change in the lives of children and their families in Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea has the highest TB prevalence in the Pacific Region with an estimated 3,000 people dying each year of the disease. Due to an extreme shortage of health staff, PNG faces many challenges in treating people diagnosed with TB. World Vision’s TB treatment supporters help people with TB complete their medications. They are the silent frontline heroes in the fight against TB in the country.
Papua New Guinea has the highest TB prevalence in the Pacific Region with an estimated 3,000 people dying each year of the disease. Due to an extreme shortage of health staff, PNG faces many challenges in treating people diagnosed with TB. World Vision’s TB treatment supporters help people with TB complete their medications. They are the silent frontline heroes in the fight against TB in the country.
Papua New Guinea has the highest TB prevalence in the Pacific Region with an estimated 3,000 people dying each year of the disease. Due to an extreme shortage of health staff, PNG faces many challenges in treating people diagnosed with TB. World Vision’s TB treatment supporters help people with TB complete their medications. They are the silent frontline heroes in the fight against TB in the country.
Papua New Guinea has the highest TB prevalence in the Pacific Region with an estimated 3,000 people dying each year of the disease. Due to an extreme shortage of health staff, PNG faces many challenges in treating people diagnosed with TB. World Vision’s TB treatment supporters help people with TB complete their medications. They are the silent frontline heroes in the fight against TB in the country.
Papua New Guinea has the highest TB prevalence in the Pacific Region with an estimated 3,000 people dying each year of the disease. Due to an extreme shortage of health staff, PNG faces many challenges in treating people diagnosed with TB. World Vision’s TB treatment supporters help people with TB complete their medications. They are the silent frontline heroes in the fight against TB in the country.
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