Even more of these gorgeous knits from the Belrose knitters and the Irish knitter Carmel being packed ready for dispatch asap.
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David Antonio was a dear friend, and like an elder brother to us. We loved his energy and passion for life. His humour was infectious, he cooked great mona, and loved to share all things Kiriwinan with us. We give thanks for his life and friendship and are deeply saddened by his passing. We will miss him very much.
We send our deepest condolences to his family, and to all of those who are also close to him, who are no doubt also feeling this loss deeply.
Tuwagu, rest in peace.
With love
Doug & Jodi Lawton
Sydney, Tuesday 30 November, 2021
Thanks to Andy and the team at Australia Post the contents of 6 boxes mailed on Saturday, listed below:
For VBA’s:
Off they go… yippee!!!! thank you to all our sponsors and donors for making all this possible!
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Whilst we have been locked down our wonderful knitters and sewers have been busy creating bags and bags of donations to send over and we have now had an opportunity to dispatch them. Hopefully they will arrive in time for Christmas :). Thank you so much to Sandy (Pictured), Michele and our wonderful Belrose and Irish knitters.
Packed up and sent on Saturday in this first dispatch (1 of 2) which was made up of 6 boxes.
Contents:
For VBA’s:
Off they go… yippee!!!! thank you to all our sponsors and donors for making all this possible!
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It was a joyous moment for David Max Ibwasa seeing him with full smile while pumping the water for himself. Couple of days ago he was carrying little containers to fetch water for his family but now the pump has made life easier for him coz its just few meters away from his house.
Thanks to the social media for making it possible for our lovely friends from afar to react positively to help us. I and the Oyabia and Rabesi community want to send our sincere gratitude to CFK team and Jodi Lawton from Aussie and Toks Bwaina from Pom with the local team here in Trobs for putting things together for our pump to function.
Thank you all so much. Kamatokisi.
From Enos Enos, from Rabesi Village, thanking CFK on behalf of Oyabia/Rabesi people.
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Update – Friday 19th Nov 2021: Oyabia/Rabesi water pump was out of service yesterday due to broken part. I called Koega last night and today he went to Oyabia to restore the water pump.
Now the water pump is back to operation. Oyabia/Rabesi people convey their heartfelt appreciation and thank you to CFK.
Thanks to the generosity of our sponsors and donors we are able to provide more PPE, COVID-19 education material. Our plumber is also working on fixing the water pumps which is proving to be a constant challenge. Thank you for all your support!!! 💖
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PNG is now facing impacts from the third wave of COVID-19. Almost all Provinces are affected and there has been an increased surge of COVID-19 on Kiriwina.
We are currently purchasing more PPE to send to our CFK representatives on Kiriwina as soon as possible.
Thank you to all our sponsors and donors for making this support possible🙌.
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By Pita Ligaiula -October 8, 2021097
Covid’s Delta strain is overwhelming Papua New Guinea’s fragile health system, forcing the closure of Port Moresby’s only public hospital to non-critical care and sparking emergency oxygen deliveries to the remote highlands.
Port Moresby General Hospital – where only 10 per cent of nurses are vaccinated – issued a bulletin this week announcing a “scaling down of services”, including the suspension of all elective surgery and GP consultations.
The hospital’s chief executive, Paki Molumi, said 61 percent of patients presenting at the hospital with flu-like symptoms were testing positive for Covid-19.
“The third (Delta) wave is hitting most parts of the country. This is the worst phase of the crisis,” Dr Molumi said.
With just 0.2 percent of PNG’s population currently vaccinated, the Delta strain of the virus is now spreading unchecked across the impoverished country, which is Australia’s nearest neighbour.
Earlier in the week, the Eastern Highlands Provincial Health Authority put out an emergency call for more oxygen supplies and 100 extra hospital beds, as it was swamped by Covid patients.
But with only 191,000 tests conducted nationally, the nation’s health authorities are unsure of the true extent of the crisis.
“We have a low rate of testing so we are not clear about the level of the pandemic,” Dr Molumi said.
“And also the vaccination rates are very low, and that has put healthcare providers under great stress. We cannot predict what numbers we will expect the next day, or the day after that.”
Dr Molumi said vaccine hesitancy was rampant, driven by social media disinformation.
“It’s not only the general public (who are hesitant), but the health workers as well,” he said.
“For our medical workers, 60-70 percent are vaccinated. But among our nurses the vaccination rate is less than 10 per cent.”
Australia this week delivered an additional 26,500 Covid vaccine jabs to PNG, lifting the nation’s vaccine donations to the country to 75,000.
Far more could have been supplied, but thousands of earlier donated jabs expired due to lack of demand in PNG.
The Minister for International Development and the Pacific, Zed Seselja, said Australia was doing everything it could to help, including bolstering clinical care capacity, testing and surveillance.
“We know PNG faces a steep challenge in addressing the current (Delta) outbreak, which is why we are providing our closest neighbour with wide-ranging support to strengthen their response,” Seselja said.
“Australia also provides comprehensive assistance to PNG to improve its health system for the long term, including staff training, new hospital infrastructure and equipment, and service delivery.”
Lowy Institute Pacific program director Jonathan Pryke said social media misinformation and logistics difficulties had created “a degree of complacency in the system”, where Covid was viewed as simply another health challenge to add to the myriad of others facing the country.
He said PNG’s health system was faltering under the weight of the Delta variant, and warned of longer-term consequences.
“In the medium term, an unchecked outbreak without acceptable levels of vaccination will make it more challenging for PNG to open up to the rest of the world, which will have significant economic and health implications,” he said.
“In the long-term, this would create a risk of mutations, something we already see in PNG’s western province with extreme drug-resistant tuberculosis,” he said.
SOURCE: THE AUSTRALIAN/PACNEWS
Thank you so much Carmel!!! So thoughtful and so appreciated xxx
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Thank you to all the sponsors and donors for these essential donations and good luck to all the students doing their exams.
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