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of Tigim Laip Popondetta

by APNG Inc.The transi-

tion was done successfully

here in Popondetta with

the presence of our APNG

Director, Deputy Director

and the MARPS Program

Coordinator. It is a boost

APNG Popondetta celebrates ten

years with MARPS.

APNG Popondetta Celebrates ten years with MARPS.

APNG Popondetta Newsletter

By Emmanuel Gumaba (Resource

Development Officer) - APNG Popon-

detta

It was ten years ago when

Anglicare Popondetta was

first established at Ururu

VCT Centre. From the

humble beginnings to to-

day, Anglicare Popondetta

has achieved a lot in

terms of community ser-

vice throughout Oro Prov-

ince. To celebrate APNG

Popondetta’s ten years, it

is amazing to work with

one of the first and longest

serving staff, mentor and

our current Branch Man-

ager Mr. Stephen

Raurela. As a stu-

dent ten years

ago he was a fre-

quent visitor to my

school to deliver

pamphlets of HIV

and I remember

my friends calling

him Mr. AIDS Man. Today

it is a privilege to work

along side him.

One of the highlights of

this year 2015 was the

introduction of MARPS

program to APNG Popon-

detta after the taker over

was the message from the

Director of Anglicare PNG

Inc Ms. Heni Meke at the

transition and APNG

Popondetta adopts it as

it’s key message.

to the current available

services to our APNG

Popondetta clients.

As APNG Popondetta

celebrates its ten years, it

would like to share a key

message to all its net-

works and stakeholders

throughout PNG; Efforts

to contain the spread of

HIV in PNG should be

everyone’s priority. This

Inside this issue:

Adult Literacy visible

tool for a realistic goal.

2

Enhancing M&E with

two days workshop.

3

Oro MARPS Peer Led

Out Reach on fire.

3

VCT talk standard and

quality service.

4

CPP will deliver this

year.

4

Accounts & Editors’

Corner.

5

BM’s Remarks. 5

Special points of interest:

Efforts to contain the spread of

HIV in PNG should be every-

one’s priority.

A province is only as good as its

individual citizens.

Aim to see MARPS to take sole

lead in the two districts of Oro

Province.

Through the eyes of maturity

MARPS in Oro is based on

confidence and trust.

Anglicare PNG Inc.

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By Carson Taylor Evari-Literacy Coordi-

nator APNG Popondetta.

The secret to literacy is

knowledge and skills. With

the acquisition of the essential

knowledge and skills, one is

enabled to use these tools towards his own

and his community’s development. To those

who say that solution to our problems lie

somewhere in the political arena, economical

arena, sports and recreational, the crime bills

or in the Health- care reform or public policy

–I say that the reality could not be more dif-

ferent. This is because the solutions are not

political. Politics is but a subset of a culture

Ms. Meke said Anglicare PNG Inc

has the experience, resource and

structure in place to deliver and wel-

comed the transition. “With the Wa-

bag experience I am con-

fident,” she said. Popon-

detta and Wabag are the

only two of the APNG’s

five centers in the coun-

try who are taking part in

the transition with Tigim

Laip PNG.

APNG Popondetta is

ready and looking forward

to work with the increase number of

clients the transition brings and is

confident to maintain, improve and

tackle challenges the future holds.

Adult Literacy a visible tool for a

realistic goal.

Anglicare PNG Inc began in 2000 as an initiative of

the Anglican Church of PNG. The aim was to reach

out and serve the community. The APNG Popondetta

was opened in 2006. The original objectives state that

APNG priorities included HIV/AIDS awareness and

counseling, drugs and alcohol education and rehabil-

itation, family life, youth, spiritual development, liter-

acy health and hygiene. Ten years later APNG

Popondetta has grown into one of the main players in

Oro Province’s fight against HIV and Aids and Adult

Education.

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Popondetta Branch

P.O.Box 26

Popondetta, Northern Province.

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at work in the

community with

the community in

the Oro Kaiva

Way.

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PNG lets unite to fight HIV & AIDS.

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ORO MARPS Peer Led Out Reach on Fire.

focused in a certain area. It will not fundamen-

tally change this country or bring it to where it’s

dreams are. As the saying goes;“As I am so is

my Province” In other words the Province is only

as good as its individual

citizens. As the individual is

developed literary he or she

in turn will contribute to the

development of family, the

community and in doing so

contribute to a better Oro

Province.”

year all beneficiaries to the MARPS

program are knowledgeable about the

risks that is involved in their sexual

behavior . Mr. Asimba also stressed

that his vision for APNG Popondetta

MARPS is to take the sole lead by

making it a bigger network covering

the two districts in Oro Province.

By Charles Asimba-Project

Officer MARPS-APNG Popon-

detta.

The

MARPS

Peer Led

Outreach Program in

Popondetta is on fire.

Mr. Charles Asimba

the MARPS project

officer of the APNG

Popondetta said that

they are currently

nine Peer Educators

working with him

and the field officer.

Their aim is to see

through statistics that

by the end of this

Adult Literacy a visible tool for a realistic goal.

Enhancing M&E with two days workshop.

M&E officer Port Moresby for the job well

done.

By Peter Tawae-Assistant M&E Officer APNG

Popondetta.

The two days workshop

run by visiting M& E

officer from Port Moresby

in the last week of Febru-

ary was an eye opener to the new staffs and

also a refresher to the existing staffs. It was

very interesting because Donors have their

expectations and M&E is very vital for re-

porting to be uniform in the branch to meet

the donor’s expectations. The visiting M&E

Officer emphasized that all Branch compo-

nents should create their own filing system

for safety pur-

poses apart

from the re-

ports compiled

and sent to

head office as a

Branch. The

agendas discussed in the workshop were very

vital for the branch. The participants were the

current staff members of APNG Popondetta

and the Peer Educators. With that we the

Oro team would like to thank Jacob APNG

“ M&E training a eye opener

to new staffs and refresher to

existing staffs.”

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APNG MARPS Coordinator Ms. Roberts

standing second left with Peer Educators.

An adult at the age of 54 gradu-

ating with his level one certificate

in Wawanga APNG run Adult Litera-

cy School, Oro Province.

Photos tell it all-flash back to the last ten years.

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CPP will deliver this year (cont..)

CPP will deliver this year.

By Mr. Allan Ragusa-VCT Team Leader APNG

Popondetta.

One of the most

important service

component for

APNG Popondet-

ta is the VCT sites at Ururu, Oro Bay

and Kokoda. The Team Leader Mr.

Allan Ragusa says that the team’s aim is

to see and make sure that the services

provided by the sites are up to standard

and quality inline with APNG’s Mission

Statement. Mr. Ragusa also stressed that

the Team VCT’s vision is to see that by

the end of this year all VCT files to be

converted in to electronic data format.

This the team believe will make the files

safe, confidential and more organized to

accommodate MARPS demand.

“Although there is space for little adjust-

ment to accommodate the client base but

otherwise we are ready to deliver,” he

said.

By Ms. Molly Ifoki-HIV Church Partnership Pro-

gram Coordinator APNG

Popondetta.

As the person in

charge of CCP pro-

grams in APNG Popondetta it is very

exciting because there is still a lot of

space to learn. My area of focus for last

year and this year has mainly been con-

centrated on HIV and Community De-

velopment (WASH). The planning for

the WASH program is already been

done and now we are into the imple-

mentation part of it. The first project is

the ventilated improved pipe for latrines

which will be constructed in all elemen-

tary schools in the Ifane Area . That’s

Ijika, Jegarata,Jonita, Newton Col-

league, Inota and Mosou elemen-

tary schools. For a start, first

year has a lot of exciting programs in the

pipeline to deliver.

five schools have

been selected to

work on. The HIV

program is mainly

concentrated on sex

education for

youths and mobile

VCT. Ajoa village

in the Tufi District

was visited last year

for condom demon-

stration, distribution

and VCT. We also

attended World

Aids Day last year

and explained the

meaning of Red

Ribbon and the re-

sponsibility that

goes with it. This

VCT talk Standard and Quality service to accommodate MARPS.

“CPP’s area of focus is HIV &

Community Development ( WASH)”

Molly & Team condom distribution Ajoa Village.

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Mr. Ragusa & Team VCT field

trip to Yaudari Village, Oro

Province.

APNG Oro travel far and wide to get the message across.

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Editors’ Corner Dear Reader,

make sure staffs from all compo-

nents follow APNGs’ staff financial

manuals and procedures so APNG

auditors will clear our

branch at the end of the

work year. If this aim or

goal is achieved it will

be an important mile-

stone for the branch.

By Clayton Aaron-Accounts Officer APNG

Popondetta.

It is quite challenging in the work

of an accounts officer but very

satisfying when all tasks assigned

are completed. My day to day job

involve monitoring all compo-

nents budget allocated and mak-

ing sure all budgets are imple-

mented according to various com-

ponents’ annual activity plan. My

challenges most times are delay

in fundings for components and

email correspondence

down because of tech-

nical problems which

makes it complicated to

meet deadlines on giv-

en time. My aim for

this year 2015 is to

treasure your cordial relationship and see it

as the most important pillar of our organiza-

tion. Thank you so much, Oro!Oro!Oro Kai-

va!

It is with outmost pleasure

we bring to you this year’s

first of the four quarterly

newsletter issues for

APNG Popondetta. We

see it as our duty and are

delighted to inform and

communicate to our do-

nors, stakeholders, clients,

network, the community,

fans and the people of

Oro . Our success in the last

ten years is impossible with-

out your contribution either

direct or indirect, whichever

way be it, we are humbled to

say that it is worthwhile. We

hope that this issue will

bring you an insight of the

work progress of APNG

Popondetta this year. Apart

from business and work we

The Accounts.

Branch Manager’s Remarks

Mentoring an Organisation to turn ten years is an

honour that needs to be directed to every individual

person who contributed and sacrificed to make it

their goal. I want to acknowledge all volunteers,

staff and management of Anglicare PNG Inc and

partners who committed their hearts to bringing

Anglicare Popondetta this far.

As the branch turned ten years old on the 28th of

February this year, the birth of a new look HIV &

STI approach with MARPS has been entrusted to

Anglicare Popondetta. This is a challenge in many

ways, but through the eyes of maturity the MARPS

program is an image of trust and confidence that

Anglicare Popondetta is capable in ensuring the

MARPS are well taken care off.

To all volunteers , staff and management of Angli-

care Papua New Guinea Inc and all our partners

and stakeholders, thank you for this achievement,

you are all specially called for this purpose, from

whatever aspect you are gifted in , together as a

team, Anglicare PNG’s mission and vision will be

achieved.

May the good Lord Jesus Christ Bless you all.

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Accounts Officer in a busy

day.

From L-R, Emmanuel Gumaba, Car-

son Evari, Peter Tawae & Peter Kanga.

Branch Manager Stephen Raurela.