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Dear Friend of Papua Partners
WE WOULD LIKE TO SAY A HUGE THANK YOU - WITH YOUR HELP WE RAISED A MAGNIFICENT ₤5,100
Papua Partners would like to thank everyone for their most generous support.
This is how your donations are helping the people of Papua.
Papuans face crisis on many different fronts, from TB epidemics to increasing rates of people being infected by HIV to the collapse of the education system, meaning that the future of the next generation is at serious risk.
Sateli is a young women, with two children, from the remote village of Ninia. In an area where there are few opportunities for women, Yasumat has trained her to manage the new communications centre which has internet access and a satellite phone for communication to the outside world. This means she now has a income to support her family and a new skill which gives her respect and standing in the community. Papua Partners partner Yasumat in training many women in Ninia to start their own business and providing loans for start up.
Support other women like Sateli
Sikapat recently found out he was HIV positive and is in the later stages of AIDS. When he arrived at Yasumat, he didn't understand what was wrong with him and his family wanted to send him home to his village to die. With Yasumat's help, he was able to get counselling, understand his status and is now getting stronger with medication and improved nutrition. In the last three months, Yasumat has shared the dangers of HIV and TB to over 2000 people in the towns and villages of Yahukimo District. Recently Yasumat helped bury the 19th victim of AIDS from Yahukimo. There are many more we don't know about and many people who have yet to hear. Women are especially at risk.
Support the Yasumat health team in caring for the sick and preventing the spread of HIV and other diseases in remote areas..
Learning to read and write in the village of Liligan was never easy. It is on a mountain ledge three hours walk to the nearest government school where teachers are rarely present. The small Yasumat parallel school with its voluntary teacher provides a light and hope for the future for the two hundred or so children who learn to read, write and do basic maths in the basic wooden structure. "I don't get paid" says parallel teacher "but who else is going to ensure the future of these children? If I don't teach them they will never be able to do anything outside this village. They are our hope."
Ensure more children get a basic education support the Yasumat education program.
Papua Partners currently supports Yasumat through providing training and skills to improve management, good practice and to access funding for their programs. Yasumat needs more resources to fund their education, health, natural resources and community development programs.
Through Papua Partners support, Yasumat has been able to enter into partnership with the United Nations Development Program, International Labour Organisation and also develop partnerships with local and provincial government. Our way of working provides sustainability and the assurance that your funds are being used for the purpose that they are given. All funds go directly to Papua to support our staff that accompany and train Yasumat or to Yasumat programs.
Please support us once again by visiting our JustGiving Donation page.
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