We were delighted to be able to catch up in person and online at our recent Mercy WorksAnnual Friends Gathering ‘Each Voice Counts’ which was held on 13 October 2022 at the Convent Gardens at Parramatta.
We wanted to share some highlights in case you were not able to attend live!
Special guests included Sr Maryanne Kolkia and Steven Dude from our Papua New Guinea Projects in Simbu and Kiunga, refugees from our Mercy Connect Adult Literacy Classes at Hilltop Road Public School, a special welcome from Aunty Jenny, Aunty Cass and Janaya from our Baabayn Aboriginal Corporation Project, Aunty Pat from our Nunga Babies Watch Project in Adelaide as well as a very special interview with Cherilyn, a survivor of human trafficking who works with out Cebu Project in the Philippines; Creating Change for Woman Through Advocacy.
I would like to take this opportunity to say a very BIG Thank you to all those who so generously donated to our Chicken & Egg NutritionJuly Tax Appeal in Timor-Leste!
We are thrilled to let you know that we have reached our target of $13,000 which will go to support our partnership project with the Hospitaler Sisters of Mercy in Maucatar, in the Cova Lima district in Timor Leste.
This project is based at the Teresa Orsini Clinic. The staff work to improve the nutrition of mothers and young children who attend the maternity clinic, and they also conduct outreach programs to 22 villages in the Maucatar catchment area.
Our Chicken and Egg project is simple in design but powerful in impact. The Maucatar Nutritional/Hygiene Project have supported over 1,300 women and children with health education and monitoring, as well as activities aimed at improving nutrition, personal hygiene and sanitation. Recent activities included COVID-19 awareness and handwashing, workshops on raising hens and creating a kitchen garden. The staff also provided soap and face masks to communities.
Chickens and eggs are considered one of the main sources of protein in the diet of the people of this mountainous area.
They also provide community education and nutrition, to 50 girls who stay at their hostel.
Sr Gilbert who runs the Clinic said to us in a recent report –
“By raising egg-laying hens, families are able to raise their income and live a better quality of life. Many of the families have followed the lessons and advice we are teaching and demonstrating. Having a good balanced diet for every member of the family will build a healthy community.”
Our Overseas Project Manager – Maria is looking forward to visiting Maucatar in September. At Mercy Works we are very proud of our Chicken and Egg project which we believe SAVES lives in Timor Leste.
One of the key principles at Mercy Works is to walk with vulnerable people, to empower them to take responsibility for their lives and become their own agents of change. Sometimes change can be slow and we accept that.
We are proud of our Prospering After Prison Pilot project, based in Port Augusta. In partnership with Centacare Catholic it has been running for two years, providing through-care (or holistic care) for Aboriginal women leaving prison to prosper in their community.
(L-R) Sr Elizabeth Royan, Sr Sheela Thomas and Sr Delma Rani are known as “Kanga” (sister) to many Indigenous women in Port Augusta
In the past year, 21 Aboriginal women were assisted in the development of personal resilience, financial resilience, living skills, cultural healing, spiritual support and community connection under the guiding and dedicated care of three Sisters of Saint Anne of Chennai: Sisters Delma Rani, Elizabeth Royan and Sheela Thomas.
The sisters visits covered vast areas of land
They accompanied women to their court hearings when they were released on parole, connected them with legal aid on their behalf, transported them to locations to access service and referrals for emergency housing, food and clothing as well as visited inmates in prison. They also delivered food packages in the APY lands during Covid-19 and basic amenities packs upon their release.
The project has worked tirelessly to empower and strengthen the families and communities of these vulnerable women, many of whom are dealing with alcohol and drug addiction, homelessness, prior traumas, poverty and domestic violence.
The projects aimed to improve the capacity and connectedness of women leaving prison when they are vulnerable and at risk of re-offending due to the barriers of navigating through the transition from prison to everyday life in their community.
The need for tailored project that meet the individual needs of offenders’ is currently not being met by services in the region. This project aimed to provide case management support to each individual as issues arose and link them to the appropriate services.
The Sisters supported local community events and walks…
“Women whose husbands or partners are incarcerated should be supported. Women suffer greatly on a mental, economic and emotional level,” says Sr Sheela of the wide-range of women targeted in the program.
“By assisting them, we are supporting the entire family and ensuring productive and integrative living.
We are happy to report their hard work, monitoring and evaluation is potentially going to be incorporated to advocate for on-going funding for a range of providers including State and Commonwealth Government.
The pilot will provide the evidence base to evaluate areas for expansion within the project and larger scale. Both Sr Delma and sr Sheela have been appointed by the prison to be volunteer chaplains.
Supporting local artists….
“We hope the information and documentation we have acquired will encourage us in engaging the support of other stakeholders in this project,” says Sr Sheela.
Dr Jen Clearly, CEO of Centacare Catholic Country SA, says there is minimal or no preparation within the prison prior to release, and no services whatsoever available in the community upon release.
Which is why she has contacted Kornar Winmil Yunti Aboriginal Corporation (KWY) who have expressed interest in expanding their involvement with the Sisters.
She has also had contact with the Kokatha Aboriginal Corporation with a view to involving Centacare in the future, should funding become available.
“We recognise their present predicament, which is the result of multiple of underlying issues in their lives including intergenerational trauma,” says Sr Sheela Thomas.
“After listening, we discovered how their sharing of their trauma had such an impact on us.”
Naydia Dooley, a Year 11 student who lives and learns with her 14-month-old daughter, Thea, at Cape York Girl Academy (CYGA) in Cairns, admits she wasn’t always a model student.
The 18-year-old Wik Mungkan and Wadjigu girl from Pormpuraaw and Woorabinda, says there has been a profound shift in the way she views the world these days compared to her younger years.
Naydia, 18, and her daughter Thea, 14 months, live and learn at the one-of-a-kind boarding school for teens and their bubs in Cape York
“I am Thea’s mum I love her endlessly; she is my motivation to keep going through life. Being a mother has changed me a lot. Before this, I was running amock. Thinking about what my future looked like back then, it wouldn’t be good.
“I used to fight all the time and get into trouble. I never had the responsibility of having to look after someone else before. Now, all my focus is on her and what she needs. It’s kept me away from all that other trouble. It’s a full-time job being a mum, they need you!”
Now emerging as a young leader in her community, Naydia was recently invited to speak at the Early Years Conference in Cairns, where she made the presentation: “A Village Raises a Child; Providing opportunities for young women to continue their secondary education while being a mum at school.”
Naydia was invited to make a presentation at the recent Early Years Conference in Cairns
She spoke of her experiences at the first-of-its-kind boarding school for teenage Indigenous mums and their babies along with other young women who are at risk of disengaging with their education.
As a young mother wanting to go forward in life, she says the CYGA was the perfect place to study and actively raise her daughter. It has been “challenging but rewarding”.
“Cape York Girl Academy gives chances to students unlike other schools. The school is non-judgemental about your past and that gives me the confidence and sense of belonging, when other schools don’t, to complete my education to the best of my ability.
“Thea loves it here. At first, she wasn’t too sure because there are so many girls and people around. Then she started to get used to people and now she’ll go to everyone, she’s a very social girl. The girls love having Thea around. They fight over who’s going to hold her.
“When I need a break, they’ll take her straight away. I don’t feel worried because I know she’s safe with them and she knows them very well.”
Naydia has transformed from a restless 17-year-old into an ambitious and loving 18-year-old mum in her time there.
Naydia and Thea live and learn together at Cape York Girls Academy
“I love being here, away from everything. The environment is calm, and everyone is friendly, and the school is so supportive. If Thea has kept me up and I haven’t had a good sleep, they let me rest. They encourage you to get into class. I like being in class because the teachers make it fun. I can come up to the day care whenever I want to see Thea if I’m worried about her.
“I like all my classes and I love learning.”
This year Mercy Works is proudly funding new technology for a Multi-Sensory Calming De-escalation Room to enhance our goal of growing effective and confident mothers, happy and confident children, and provide young Indigenous women with opportunities for growth and success in every aspect of their lives.
With the end of Term 3 holidays approaching, a classroom will be repurposed during the holiday break while the students are not on site, and allow the facilities team to paint and set up the room for Term 4.
“Students can go to this room to feel transported into a familiar setting before they lose control. Here they can take time to centre themselves,” says Principal Mandy Ross.
“As a forward-thinking school, The Cape York Girl Academy want to elevate the level of therapeutic intervention available on campus and provide spaces where students can go before they have physical or emotional outbursts, which can often mean they lost hours of learning time. The room will reduce this time to 15 minutes.”
All girls are supported by qualified trauma-informed staff and the space is co-designed with students to create familiar imagery, sounds and smells as well as specialist multi-sensory toys.
With only one year to go at the Girl Academy, Naydia is currently busily working on her Cert II Hospitality theory and also is studying to take her Learners Drivers License test in the next two weeks. She says she is very much looking forward to getting her L’s and practising driving.
And while she can’t imagine being anywhere else, she is looking forward to life ahead with Thea.
“I really like working with children. I’m considering becoming a primary school teacher. I really want to inspire and help other young mums out there to get to school and encourage young girls to keep going for their dreams, to never give up.
“I was on a long-term order and I’m starting to come out of child safety now. So having Thea full-time is a really big thing for me. She’s very smart. I try to teach her things. She’ll be able to speak so many different languages.
“My biggest hope is just to have a good life with Thea and to always have her by my side. I just want to be happy and calm and give her the best life possible. I want to get a good job so I can give her things that I didn’t have when I was younger, but I want her to appreciate those things as well.”
She cites Thea as her absolute motivation to keep going through life. “I love her endlessly”.
Empowering the everyday lives of the women of our Baabayn Mums & Bubs Group to grow into their potential and to contribute to an Aboriginal-led movement for better outcome for First Nations women and children is one of the key goals of this Mercy Works partnership project.
And this year is already providing spectacular results!
In May, nine of the mums of Baabayn were invited to showcase their artworks in an immersive display of art projections as the centrepiece of Crown Sydney’s inaugural Vivid Sydney activation, The Gallery.
The spectacular lighting projections created a 160km walk through experience along the landmark Wulugul Walk at Barangaroo, bringing to life the works of the talented Baabayn mums and other First Nations students from Blacktown and Redfern. This was part of the Solid Ground program for Western Sydney’s emerging artists.
Not only did the artworks transform Crown Sydney into a stunning visual gallery of light projections, but the mums were also invited to a VIP cocktail party at The Crown Hotel where they and their families were treated to a media event celebrating the success and stories behind the art and the artists.
“All of the mums were excited to visit Sydney City and view their artwork and to share on their pride and happiness on their social media,” says Amanda Peachey, a program support worker at Baabayn.
The Baabayn artists from the Mums and Bubs Group were excited to showcase their artworks as the centrepiece of Crown Sydney’s Vivid Sydney!
“We have seen an increase in confidence from the artists themselves, showing enthusiasm to continue to paint and share their experiences and a few of the artists have since been approached for commission pieces and grown their business portfolios.”
The Wednesday program has opened up many business opportunities which increased financial independence for the mums involved. The mums have since held a fete stall of artworks, jewellery, clothing and pieces created by themselves at a Baabayn NAIDOC event with more markets to come.”
Mercy Works is proud to support the “bubs” component of the group which engages Aboriginal children in cultural, educational, health-promoting and healing activities in weekly three-hour sessions. This includes storytelling, learning culture, native gardening projects, motor skills activities and pre-school literacy and learning sessions.
Meanwhile, their mums participate in programs like Real Futures Job Training ‘Bring Your Bills Day’ with Legal Aid and The Western Sydney Local Health District’s Public Health Unit for a breast cancer ‘Bedazzled Bras’ initiative. Other aspects have included dealing with Government departments like Birth Deaths and Marriages and the Learning Driver Mentor Program. It’s designed to empower, promote healthy lifestyles, and enhance life skills.
For mum of three, Alycia Nicholson, the opportunity to show her artwork has been a “highlight” of her time at Baabayn.
Baabayn mum Alycia Nicholson was excited to have her artwork displayed at Vivid Sydney
“Having an art piece has made me so proud of myself and now my children are participating in more programs that Baabayn have to offer. The program gives me confidence to be able to teach my children about their heritage, it also give me the opportunity to meet other mums who have the same or similar situations to my own.”
Alycia, 28, is not Aboriginal. Her children are Indigenous from their father’s side. “My children are from the Dharug tribe, and I am doing all that I can to help them along with their cultural journey by participating in cultural activities,” says Alycia, who is also full-time carer for her niece.
Baabayn mum Alycia Nicholson says it’s important her children learn their Indigenous culture
“When I initially started, the mums and bubs group was focused on Indigenous arts and telling my story of involvement for my children. I was culturally accepted as an individual, but also as a mother taking in knowledge to be able to teach my own kids.”
Part of Baabayn’s philosophy is that it is designed to empower not only Aboriginal women but also non-Aboriginal mothers of Aboriginal children.
“My life has changed in a cultural way. Being a part of an Aboriginal community has helped me explain so many more thing to my children, things they didn’t know and helped them with their identity and to be proud of their aboriginality.
“The program has helped me identify different culturally safe services that can provide help for my children with their needs, whether that be medical or educational. I like that this program gives me confidence to be able to teach my children about their heritage.”
All Photos: Courtesy of Baabayn Aborginal Corporation
Today is International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples and we here at Mercy Works want to recognise and celebrate the achievements and contributions of Indigenous people in our society.
We have five First Nations projects this year, including the Cape York Girls Academy in Cairns (seen in this photo), and believe in protecting the rights of the world’s Indigenous populations as well as recognising the achievements and contributions of our Indigenous brothers and sisters.
Preserving cultural heritage is essential. Which is why we have chosen our newest project – Yartangka Tirkanthi (which means ‘Learning on Country’) – in partnership with Kura Yerlo Inc in South Australia this year. This is giving young Aboriginal people access to cultural and language learning opportunities through visits ‘on country’.
Yartangka Tirkanthi honours the potential of Indigenous youth and workers to grow their knowledge of home country, language, culture and Elders through connecting with their land.
We are connecting two youth groups with their communities in 2022, one to Raukkan (Ngarrindjeri) and one to Wirraway (Peremangk), through overnight trips.
This reconnection will strengthen intergenerational relationships, provide safe spaces for kinship connection, build positive shared memories and recognise the diversity of local communities.
“Whilst we can’t change the overall landscape within which our community lives, we can provide a safe and respectful space where culture is embraced, and exploration and reconnection is encouraged and supported.”
– Claire Fleckner (Kura Yerlo Inc)
We hope to build a sense of pride in identity, belonging and resilience and that the trips will be a vehicle for healing.
Reconnecting with local elders will create an opportunity for the ongoing survival of Indigenous culture and pride in heritage.
“This process honours the potential of our young people to one day become new Elders passing on their knowledge of language and culture and ensuring the survival of traditional skills,” says Claire Fleckner from Kura Yerlo.
The project, in conjunction with Kura Yerlo, will also upskill youth staff to better support young Aboriginal people.
Photos: (Main Image) Courtesy of Cape York Partnership (Below) Taken with permission from our former Tiwi Islands Project
Today is World Day Against Trafficking in Persons and focuses on the important role of survivors of human trafficking to prevent crime & help victims.
Here at Mercy Works we are proud of our work in The Philippines with survivors of sex trafficking – where we are working to give these women a voice with our “Creating Change for Women through Advocacy” Project in partnership with the Villa Maria Good Shepherd Sisters.
This project focuses on mentoring recovered trafficked women to become strong advocates for change and raise the level of society’s response to human trafficking and safeguard the human rights of women and children.
The project offers ongoing healing, safety, education and ways to give a confident voice to women who have exited from prostitution and are survivors of human trafficking.
Now in our second year, the team have produced new research “Delving into Drivers for Human Trafficking of Women” which focuses on the problems met by women in accessing programs and services and the recommendations from the women as to ways their needs can be resolved through real advocacy at the community level.
Members of a coalition organised in phase 1 of the project – including government agencies, NGO’s, local government, inter-faith organisations and most importantly survivors of human trafficking – – spearhead and target decision makers to affect change.
The focus is on influencing these target audiences to amend current laws and formulate policies which will create change and impact the lives of women and girls who are trafficked and abused.
The project starts and ends with the women. They are educated to be a leading force in protecting themselves and other women against perpetrators and institutional oppression. Ultimately they change their own belief in their capacity to rise against their experiences.
“The main drivers of human trafficking emerging from the research are the lack of opportunity to obtain an education; that some women do not possess a birth certificate which authenticates their name, identity and nationality; the deprivation of good parental care, while often suffering domestic violence and bullying, which causes a deep detrimental effect on their sense of self-worth; the violation of their human right to food, education, health care and housing; that these vulnerable women have been severely impacted by recent events such as Covid 19 and climate change contributing to typhoons, rising oceans, drought, earthquakes and scarcity to clean water,” says our Executive Director Sr Sally Bradley who has visited Cebu and walked and talked with the women there to gain true understanding.
“The list of women’s recommendations at the end of this research will inform and strengthen their advocacy.”
The project aims ultimately for the prevention of human trafficking and provision of appropriate programs and services to improve the lives of survivors as well as equipping them with skills to gain decent employment (outside of prostitution).
They are being empowered through education on how to advocate for their own cause and then teach other victims and “build a coalition of light”.
NAIDOC Week 2022 runs until July 10 and this year’s theme is “Get up! Stand up! Show up!”
It celebrates the history, culture and remarkable contributions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and is a chance for all Australians to learn more about the oldest, continuous living cultures in the world.
Mercy Works is proud to partner with many First Nations communities, including our five Indigenous projects around Australia which include our Connected Kids & Empowered Educatorat the Baabayn Aboriginal Corporation in Mt. Druitt.
Baabayn is a wonderful healing space for the community in Mt Druitt and surrounding areas. As Janaya, our empowered educator there says, “Baabayn is the centrepiece. We are the connection for the community, we are the voice.
“Our dream has always been to create a healing Centre that will give the Western Sydney Aboriginal community a place to meet and reconnect with their cultural and spiritual identity.”
Janaya has wonderful plans for Baabayn – which was founded by five Aboriginal Elders who recognised “the need to look after the mob the Aboriginal way”. We are excited to bring you more about Janaya’s Journey soon. Meanwhile, our Indigenous Project Manager, Clare Bennett, visited Baabayn last week and was impressed with the progress being made.
Mercy Works Indigenous Program Manager, Clare Bennett, and Janaya – our educator at Baabayn Aboriginal Corporation
“In light of this year’s message, I am proud that Mercy Works can play a small part in Getting Up, Standing Up and Showing Up!” says Clare.
“NAIDOC Week gives us a chance to celebrate First Nations Peoples of Australia, a chance to highlight challenges that need addressing (such as our Nunga Babies Watch project advocating for a stop to another stolen generation from happening), and a chance to learn and engage with amazing cultures that are thousands of years old through heroes such as Aunty Pat in Adelaide and Janaya atBaabayn and honour the work they do.”
Our other First Nations project for the next 12 months include a Multi-Sensory Room at the Cape York Girl Academy in Cairns, our Salt n’ Pepper post-prison release project in Adelaide combined with our First Nations Advocacy– Nunga Babies Watch Project, as well as a new project which we are excited to partner with – the Yartangka Tirkanthi – Learning on Country, in Adelaide.
We can’t wait to share the good news from these projects in the coming months. So stay tuned!
[Photo credit/ special thank you for photo permissions from Baabayn Aboriginal Corporation and with the generous courtesy of the girls mum, Sheridan]
It’s International Micro, Small and Medium sized Enterprises Day and we want to celebrate the incredible work our Mercy Works Simbu Project Coordinator, Sr Maryanne Kolkia RSM, does in this area which is changing the lives of individuals and communities through economic empowerment.
Passionate about creating positive change, Sr Maryanne is behind the SME support and training which is seeing individuals prosper and turn their dreams into reality or, as Sr Maryanne puts it; “thinking big, starting small!”
The concept is simple: Mercy Works provides an amount of money to be used as start-up capital by individuals or groups, which is returned after every two weeks, the same money passed on to another, then to another…. We also provide support with logistics, financial material, and seeds as start-up capital, with a clear direction: “The primary goal; tomake money together and grow money together in achieving bigger and better dreams in life. Work, multiply, keep yours and give back what’s given to you,” says Sr Maryanne of the simple yet effective concept. “Community responsibility remains the calibre and catalyst for real change in regards to improving the quality of life for all.”
Here are just a few examples of how SME is changing lives in PNG:
One 67-year-old woman, living with HIV/AIDS for more than 20-years, engaged in the thirty-kina project in June 2021. When the Mercy Works office was first established in Mingende – she was one of the first 21 individuals involved. After three months she earned a total of PGK1,350 (A$530), enabling her to repay the loan, and release new funding for another individual. The program is helping to realise her personal dreams and goal to build a permanent house for herself.
She also requested to borrow two additional loans totalling PGK650 (A$200), with 30% interest being repaid in three months. Her savings reached PGK4,000 (A$1,560,) making her vision to have a permanent* house built within three years possible (*upgrading materials from bamboo walls and grass matts to brick, wood and cement floors with a galvanised iron roof…and sometimes, this includes an electricity and water connection). She is optimistic, committed, hardworking, and so determined to achieve her goal.
A displaced youth discontinued his education after grade 12 due to financial constraint and family problems.
He began his journey with Mercy Works in Goroka in 2019, where he engaged in the youth program through short-term financial development goal activity, selling manufactured mini goods known as “Table Market”.
He was unsuccessful after three attempts of going back to school. One morning, he came to the Mercy Works office explaining that he would be better off in the village than struggling in town. He requested bulb onion seeds and a bush knife so he could return to his village in Simbu and till the land.
His request was granted, and he started working with his immediate family, doing the gardening. Later, other members in his clan, particularly the youths, joined. A cooperative was formed consisting of forty members working as a group, coordinated, coached and mentored by the youth.
During the period they had 3 harvests, a total of 135 nets of onion bulb, generating PGK9,888 (nearly A$4,000). His clan’s cooperative boosted the interest in nearby villages and clans. As a result, three new interested groups formed, and reported that they would like to partner with Mercy Works.
One youth reached PGK1,000 (nearly A$400) within two months, by becoming engaged in ordering chicks from New Birds company in Lae, then travelling highlands Highway supplying poultry farmers with chicks!
Individuals engaged in financial mobilisation progressed from short-term to medium- term financial development goals that include trade store, poultry project, piggery, and fish farming.
A man expressed gratitude to Mercy Works for the start-up capital of seedlings & the thirty-kina which enabled him to make enough money to pay for his daughter’s school fees. His success story encouraged others.
We wouldn’t be able to conduct this work without the generous support of The Noel and Carmel O’Brien Family Foundation to whom we are incredibly grateful.
Timor-Leste remains one of the poorest nations in the world. Maucatar is a remote mountainous area where there is severe malnutrition and high mortality rates. There is little or no access to water, sanitation, education or infrastructure.
It’s here Mercy Works partners with the Hospitaller Sisters of Mercy to deliver the Maucatar Nutritional Hygiene Project” in Cova Lima in Timor-Leste.
It aims to improve the nutritional status of mothers and young children who attend the maternity clinic and outreach programs in the Maucatar catchment area.
While we provide holistic care to malnourished children and antenatal and postnatal mothers through clinical care, and nutrition through eggs and egg-laying hens, our Health Education and Nutrition program, run by Sr Gilbert Pathrose, is educating villages on how to provide and cook nutritional meals.
Here are some of their recipes which are saving lives!
1. Mung Bean Porridge Mixture
25g mung beans (2 dessert spoons)
10g milk power (2 spoons)
5g maize flour (1 spoon)
10g sugar (1 spoon)
10g oil (1 spoon)
To Prepare:
Boil mung beans in water and add the oil until cooked (or for 30 mins)
Add sugar, milk power and maize flour and mix well
Give to the child twice daily
2. Rice Based (Low Lactose) Milk
85mls Full fat liquid milk or 11g full fat dried milk powder
15g Rice
3.5g pre-cooked vegetable oil
3g sugar
200ml water
Blend milk, rice, oil and sugar and then mix water
3. Low Osmolar (cereal based) milk
25g Dried Skim Milk Powder
10g sugar
35g dry cereal flour
30g/35ml vegetable oil
20ml CMV (1/2 red scoop)
1L of boiled water
Mix the sugar, oil and CMV to a paste and then slowly add the warm boiled water. Make up to 1 Litre. If available electrically bland or hand whisk. Cook for 4 minutes
4. No-Milk (Lactose Free) diet
Whole egg (raw) OR 60g Cooked Chicken
3g rice
4g pre-cooked vegetable oil
3g sugar
200ml water
blend together and cook
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“When I need a break, they’ll take her straight away. I don’t feel worried because I know she’s safe with them and she knows them very well.”
Passionate about creating positive change, Sr Maryanne is behind the SME support and training which is seeing individuals prosper and turn their dreams into reality or, as Sr Maryanne puts it; “thinking big, starting small!”
Here are just a few examples of how SME is changing lives in PNG:
