CARE is helping to create economic opportunities for some of the world’s poorest women.
Building legal capacity in Papua New Guinea
An interview with Josh Underhill and Zach Meyers from King & Wood Mallesons on the development of a legal handbook for NGOs in Papua New Guinea in partnership with CARE Australia What was the purpose of the project? King & Wood Mallesons (K&WM) and CARE wanted to work together to build the legal capacity and […]
PNG: Birth attendants offer hope
by Blossum Gilmour, Mamayo Health Project Manager Where did you give birth? In my family’s coffee garden. Who assisted you? No one. This is how a conversation started between CARE PNG staff and a new mother in rural Papua New Guinea. CARE had agreed to help the provincial government assess the support available to pregnant […]
‘I am somebody now’: Living with HIV in Bougainville PNG
by Lyrian Fleming, CARE’s Education Coordinator Sylvester Pokona is just 38 years old, but has the life experience of a man much older. A survivor of the Bougainville crisis – the civil war which gripped Bougainville in Papua New Guinea from 1988 to 1990, all the events of his life since then have been impacted […]