Community Development Workers Association (Inc) (CDWAI) have many relevant ‘demonstrations’ for visitors. This isn’t a demonstration area, rather a family garden that provides nutritious food, and opportunity to showcase sustainable technologies that work. After the 1997 drought the CDWAI team worked especially in the Baiyer valley, in Kompiam (Enga) and in Telefomin district to train […]
Large areas of Eastern Highlands have been reduced to expansive grassland with often uncontrolled fires damaging fallow plants and forest resources – fruit, nuts, timber. There is a pressing need to turn ongoing degradation into renewal and re-creation. CDWAI team members provide training and demonstrations in the use of varied technologies that local farmer/gardeners can […]
This is a kind of – To Whom it may concern message/post. Some words of experience that Dave and Ben would like to share with the wider world. You see, we two blokes – Dave the Kiwi and Ben the Aussie have been working in the New Guinea Islands on and off since the 1970’s […]
The CDWAI library is perhaps unique in PNG. It contains many resources for your group to make use of, written by international experts including Markus Muntwiler from Switzerland, Dr Dave Askin, Kiwi agronomist who worked in and around the PNG/Indonesia from 1988 right through to 2019 – with a break for cancer treatment and some […]
Wetar during the monsoon season The monsoon season on Wetar – from January to mid-March – is particular hard for the villagers on the North Coast of the island because of the high waves smashing onto the beach, making boat transportation impossible. Trading with the outside world decreases to zero, public passengers boats stop coming […]
The photo below shows a simple system that might work well in Wetar’s wet season. Here in New Zealand we use a similar system to provide warmth to young corn and pumpkins during the cold spring.