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 […]
The Activity has run a total of thirteen main workshops in Enga and Simbu. Many more follow up workshops have been conducted and this has allowed farmers to share with other farmers and the project trainers – their experiences. These have been really valuable. We have benefited greatly from plant materials from NARI (sweet potato […]
USING MEDIA IN A LEARNING PROCESS FOR ELEMENTARY AND JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL IN LURANG, WETAR, SOUTH WEST MALUKU, PROVINCE OF MALUKU The training of ‘media usage’ in teaching-learning process which is given by Education Specialist of Community Development for Kindergarten, Elementary and Junior High School teachers is aimed to motivate the teachers to use a […]
In May 2012, sixteen students in the third grade of the Junior High School (SMP) Lurang attended the National Tests. For people not familiar with the Indonesian education system: these tests are the same all over Indonesia and are held in the same week throughout the whole country. Disciplines tested are Bahasa Indonesia, English, mathematics, […]
This is the first time ever that PMR Madya (Youth Red Cross) was held on Wetar Island for the Maluku Barat Daya Region. Youth Red Cross held an inauguration on 4th – 6th of May 2012. This activity began on Friday afternoon and finished up on Sunday afternoon. Inspite of bad weather (rain every day), […]
Wisudah ceremony in the Lurang Kindergarten. A most significant change story May 12th, 2012 Ten second grade Kindergarten toddlers and two teachers are anxiously waiting for ‘their’ ceremony to start: the official recognition of a successful year in the Lurang “Tunas Farmer” kindergarten. For the first time in the Lurang history, ten toddlers will start […]