Papua New Guinea

Community Health Workers
Maria’s story radiates as a beacon of hope, inspiring those who face adversity to embark on their own path of transformation.
Maria's story is a reminder that with determination, education, and unwavering community support, individuals can overcome even the most depressing challenges and emerge as powerful agents of change.

Climate Smart Farming
The Climate Smart and Inclusive Cocoa Project in Madang Province's Usino District is timely, as Climate Change continues to have an immensely negative effect on traditional ways of cash crop farming.
The Climate Smart and Inclusive Cocoa Project in Madang Province is being implemented by World Vision in Papua New Guinea with much-appreciated funding support from the Australian NGO Cooperation Programme.

Livelihoods
With the establishment of 16 active Impact Clubs and the overwhelmingly positive outcomes, the project is looking at extending into other communities to form stronger ties.
The RESPECT project under World Vision is partnering with three local NGO organizations Ginigoada, Anis Foundation, and Ward 2 Youth Association.

WASH FIT Approach lessens water burden in Awaba Hospital
A run-down hospital now improved through WasH Project.

#RealLifeHeroes
Roselyn and her sister, Bernardine Mongko have been serving as World Vision’s VHVs since the Caring for Nutrition project's inception in 2017. The sisters have been instrumental in helping to reduce the high maternal and birth deaths in Papua New Guinea (PNG).
VHVs like Roselyn and Bernardine are humanitarian volunteer workers acting as first responders during emergencies in the community. They conducted their household visits throughout the COVID pandemic. The VHVs have been encouraging parents to immunize their children and mothers to go for antenatal checks.
Building Livelihoods and Resilience
Although Marex was dissatisfied with his current rate of production and income earned, he is also excited and believes that the current project will steer farmers in the right direction considering their production rate and the CPB scare.
Marex recently harvested 5 kilograms of wet beans from one of his cocoa blocks, much to his disappointment as he had previously harvested and sold actual bags of dried cocoa beans earning enough income to support his family.
At the current price rate, 1 kilogram of cocoa is equal to 1.75 Great Britain Pound (GBP) which translates to around 7 PGK. In the case of Marex, his 5 kilograms would earn around 30 PGK. (6.98 Pound sterling) or (12.17 Australian Dollars).
In local currency, 30 PGK cannot sustain a family for more than a day.

Building Resilience
Janet is a mother of four boys and her husband is now a Teacher in Charge at a nearby elementary school. The family now relies on their father’s paycheck and from selling garden food, but Janet wants her children to be able to work in their cocoa blocks and earn their own income as was done in the past.
As a women’s leader in her community, Janet believes that this project will have positive rippling impacts on the lives of women in her ward, she represents ward 18 which falls under the Gigaso Cooperative Society.

Negative gender norms can be changed: Hilda
“When I started my education, I wanted to be equal with men”, says Hilda.
She is a certified welder, a field she says is dominated by men in Papua New Guinea but that does not mean women cannot become whatever men aspire to be.
“It’s not only the men who can do these kinds of work but us women too”, she adds.
More emphasis is placed on the S4T component of the project because it has been found that an estimated 200, 000 people in Bougainville of the estimated total population of 300, 000 still lack access to financial services.
It is understood that a household will have the ability to improve its livelihood if it is financially empowered hence improving the lives of the children in that household or family.

Male engagement proves beneficial for undernourished child
A VHV under the Building Economic and Health Resilience (BEHR) Project’s Nutrition component. Francis was among 9 others from his community who have attended the Positive Deviance Hearth (PDH), Healthy Island Concept (HiC) Training, and the Male Engagement training under the Gender Equality and Social Inclusion component (GESI) of the project.
Projects implemented by World Vision in PNG complement each other as in the case of Francis and others in his community to have the opportunity to learn about the HiC, which is a WASH component and deals with water, sanitation, and hygiene of a community.
“We have to show other communities that through this project we now have healthy, improved living standards”, says Francis.

S4T Empowers Margaret to venture into Poultry Farming
In the past, most of the money gained from various economic activities go to waste but through our intervention, Margaret and her family have realized that saving money in an S4T group is not a waste of time but an investment.
Thus far, Margaret has earned K600, just from selling 10 full-grown birds. She originally had 52, so, 52 minus 10 will be 42 remaining chicks. All in all, when she sells all her birds, she is expected to earn an estimated K3000. From that amount received, she will repay her loan of K700 leaving her with an estimated K2000 as her profit.

Community-Led Total Sanitation is key to addressing open defecation in communities
As a result of the cooperative work between project staff and members of Rumba village, the village has reached its open defecation free (ODF) status and has been declared as ODF on 21st May 2021.
The KKP approach used to improve Rumba, and other communities in selected areas within the three districts in Central Bougainville is the Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) component of the project.
CLTS is a pioneering approach for mobilising communities to eliminate open defecation (OD) completely.

Child with severe malnourishment improves through Nutrition Project
Shirley appeared very weak and was not able to sit, move around or even eat properly; all she did was sleep.
Through the CFN program, food rations consisting of balanced meals were also provided to Shirley per month to help her get enough nutrients in her body. In addition, her mother was taught to prepare different recipes for balanced meals and feed Shirley 4 to 6 times per day.

WasH Project inspires behavior change in 5000 homes
The Klinpela Kominiti Projek works with 200 communities in Central Bougainville to improve Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene facilities and encourage proper hygiene behaviour in communities and schools.
The project has reached an estimated 26,000 people.

Nutrition project provides life skills in Backyard gardening
‘‘Thanks to the CFN project, my family’s life has completely changed. Unlike the past, we can now eat fresh greens and other vegetables right from our backyard! ,’’ says Jude joyously.
The most important skills imparted to Jude were soil sterilisation, spacing, nursery, transplanting, pest and weed controls, plus a bit of innovative gardening. Innovative gardening is applied when there is no good fertile ground for backyard gardening. All of these, Jude learnt through CFN project officers who work with his community.
Jude’s community is one of five project communities under CFN in Central Bougainville.
Case Finding Officers complete HIV counselling training
In Papua New Guinea an estimated 45, 000 people are currently living with HIV and of that number, only 65 percent are on antiretroviral medication. This means that an estimated 30,000 people are yet to be tested and put on treatment.
This approach will also enable KP’s to reach out to people living with HIV and TB who have defaulted – meaning they have stopped taking their medication so they too can be tested, given counselling and be put on mediation to stop the spread on HIV and TB.
Countering Climate Change through Resilience building - PNG
Through the Child Focus Disaster Risk Reduction (CFDRR) project, children like Stephanie have the opportunity to learn about the ecological importance and different uses of mangroves as a natural defense of the coastlines, swamps and breading space for fish stocks.
An initiative taken by the CFDRR project to counter climate change impacts through climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction by focusing on the most vulnerable – children both able and with special needs in schools; and in their surrounding communities.

Improving climate smart farming to counter food security impacts of Climate Change
The Building Resilient Communities in Madang (BRCM) Project has stirred a thirst for rice farming in the province.
“Magic Marasin is a packaging that began in Yosefstahl (Josephstahl) in the 90’s, we are just using it but we plan to have our own packaging soon, we plan to call ours, All in one rice,” Tonny. Kubos - BRCM Project, Lead Farmer, Rempi - Sumulkubar LLG, Sumkar District, Madang - PNG

Empowering male youths to empower train women on maternal Child Health and Nutrition - PNG
known as “the doctor” in his community .He does not have any formal medical qualifications, and dropped out of school after year 12, however empowered and equipped with his knowledge gained through the World Visions ‘Caring for Nutrition’ (C4N) Project, Norman has been accorded the title by the residents of his community.
The World Vision C4N team conducted various trainings at Jimi Block with Norman and the other CRPs. They undertook Infant & Young Child Feeding (IFCY), Time Targeted Counselling (TTC), Male Engagement and Backyard Gardening.

Empowering people battling TB in Port Moresby - Papua New Guinea
An estimated 2, 700 patients have successfully completed their treatment
Data show that, despite making up only 5 percent of the nation’s population, NCD contributes to 25 percent of all TB cases in Papua New Guinea (PNG). The overcrowded settlements and transient population have caused widespread infection.
WasH Voices For Empowerment Project (WAVE)
“I appreciate World Vision for teaching us all we know and now we are living a much cleaner, happier and healthier life compared to the past."
Caring For Nutrition Project
Backyard gardening is an initiative of the Caring For Nutrition (C4N) project in Port Moresby communities of 9 mile and Hanuabada. According to Project data (2020), it has inspired an improved livelihood of an estimated 10,000 people.
The project is supported by the PNGAus Partnership and implemented by World Vision who work closely with the National Department of Health (NDoH), PNG Women’s Microbank and the Department of Agriculture of Livestock.
World Vision PNG - Faith & Development
The MoA is aimed at delivering the ‘Child Well Being Project’ through improved parenting and caregiving practices in the targeted Lae communities of Bumbu, Kamkumung, and 2 – 7 mile settlements in Lae city.
The project is a three-year program funded by World Vision United States (WVUS) and will benefit more than 3000 individuals, including women and children in the selected communities and settlements.
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.
Child-focused disaster risk reduction

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Faith & Development
The MoA is aimed at delivering the ‘Child Well Being Project’ through improved parenting and caregiving practices in the targeted Lae communities of Bumbu, Kamkumung, and 2 – 7 mile settlements in Lae city. Over 3000 people are expected to benefit from this project.
WVPNG has ten active projects in Morobe Province working in WASH, Education, Livelihoods, Health in Immunization, and COVID Response. The Child Well Being Project will bring the entire projects WVPNG operates in the province to eleven.
To ensure the Child Well Being Programs success, WVPNG will train project staff from our Rispectim Yu Yet, Rispectim Narapela Na Yumi Sanap Wantaim program, parents, youths, and faith leaders from the Bumbu, Kamkumung, and Miles settlement using Faith-Based Approaches to benefit more than 3000 beneficiaries.
WasH Voices For Empowerment Project (WAVE)
“In the past, we did not care about how we lived in our community. Dogs would put waste everywhere and people used the bush as a toilet; we did not have the knowledge until the training came."
WAVE stands for WasH Voices for Empowerment Project – WasH stands for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene. The HiC implemented in Samson’s village falls under WasH. The WAVE project covers components of WasH, Gender, Women Empowerment and Disability Inclusion.