I set off to Port Moresby on the 22nd November 2010 from Beautiful Madang. The previous day Sunday I had had a go pinis at my local church, the Church of the Nazarene Madang. I preached that Sunday, 21st November 2010. After the service the church members served some food for the people who had turned up for my go pinis. They were some speaches and photo taking and signing in books as I was leaving the country the next day. After the party I went to Madang ...

I (Moses Kakanu) together with Tommy Pales organized and ran a two weeks training; 1st week covering Gender and the 2nd week covering Peer Group Discussion. This training took place at Moti Place in Madang Town. We targeted key stakeholders; theatre troupe members, Teachers, Community Health Workers and Local leaders from Western Highlands, Morobe, ESP, Sandaun and Madang Provinces. The Gender sessions were facilitated by Mr. Joe Moke from Tingim Laip and Sara...

Dear Friends, I am writing this blog to remember my time in Finschhafen in Morobe Province of Papua New Guinea. I travelled from Madang to Lae City spent a night at Lae International Hotel and the following day Sunday got on the ship called Geomosao for 3 hours to Finschhafen an old coastal Germany town. Greetings to my friends here.

Dear Friends all over the world, We send our greetings to you! This blog is talking about a small village (o ples) in Sandaun Province in Papua New Guinea some 5 hours drive from the Provincial City Vanimo at the border with Indonesia. This village has its main economic activity as logging and this is being done by Chinese in the area. Apart from the income from the forests, the people here depend on bush food like saksak. Life here is still very basic and tr...

Dear Friends, I was in East Yangoru LLG station in East Sepic Province in Papua New Guinea. I went there to do an HIV/AIDS training for District, LLG and Local Leaders. This was a turning point in many of the participants lives. I traveled from Madang to Port Moresby and then to Wewak, the Provincial City of East Sepic.