What a gorgeous photo! Thank you to all our sponsors and donors for the safe delivery of lead and coloured pencils to Oyabia Elementary School.
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This Remembrance Day we remember those ANZACs who served in partnership with the Kiriwinan people in WW2.
Thank you Diggers for building the Losuia airport strip, the most vital piece of infrastructure on Kiriwina, still in use today. Below image of diggers on Losuia airport strip during WW2.
Originally known as Armistice Day, Remembrance Day is observed on 11 November and marks the signing of the peace agreement between Germany and the Allies that ended the Great War of 1914-1918.
Featured image Kokoda Trail c/o the Australian War Memorial. Second World War Defining Moments, 1939–1945 | 2.4 What was the soldiers’ experience of the Kokoda Trail? | Australia’s Defining Moments Digital Classroom | National Museum of Australia (nma.gov.au)
2022 marks the 80th anniversary of the Kokoda Track campaign. Approximately 625 Australians were killed and more than 1,600 wounded in the four-month battle along the Kokoda Track in 1942.
As we mourn those who lost their lives during the war, we also mourn the recent tragic loss of life on Kiriwina with many innocent lives lost…
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Lest we forget.
Not forgotten nor forsaken
Are the lads no longer here;
I shall call-and you will waken
On this one day of the year
from Landing in the Dawn, John Sandes 1916
Here is a Post-Courier article about this tribal conflict:
As many of our supporters would be aware, Kiriwina had just experienced a horrendous death toll due to a tribal conflict. Kiriwina is known for its peace-loving people and nothing like this has happened on Kiriwina in living memory.
This tragic event did not only affect the days around the event, but its ongoing legacy is also the looming starvation of the villagers. This conflict has affected the next year’s food security of all villages involved. Hundreds of innocent victims now look at an immediate future without food.
Some villages have had their crops destroyed, whilst others will not be able to harvest their crops as they have had their labour resources removed from the island while the authorities undertake investigations into the fighting.
At this time of the year, all yam seeds in other villages have been planted, and there will be none available until after the harvest next year.
Again, we would like to pay our respects to the family and friends of the victims.
Caring for Kiriwina needs your support to provide basic food items such as rice, sugar, tinned food, noodles, teabags, flour, and cooking oil.
PLEASE HELP – YOUR DONATION IS VITAL TO SAVE INNOCENT PEOPLE FROM STARVATION
Thanks again to our sponsors and donors and Andy our wonderful postie. Another 26 birthing kits and over 1000 pencils on the way :).
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STRONG WOMEN, STRONG BABIES!
Thank you to all our sponsors and donors for helping keep our Kiriwinan mothers and babies safe.
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Thanks to our sponsors and donors and Andy our wonderful postie :).
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164 Birth kits ready to go. Thanks, Cam, for seeing the lighter side of life and thank you to all our helpers, Mary, Dawn, Cam, and Lila😍.
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This initiative is only possible due to the generous support of our wonderful donors and the Praxeis team. Our incredible CFK training team will this trip be joined by Doctors and Midwife specialist trainers from Praxeis.
We are all so excited to be finally able to visit our beloved Kiriwinan’s again and continue this wonderful work. Yippee!!! And thank you again donors and Praxeis!!!!
Photo: One of our incredible head VBA’s Ruth with Shea, Jacqui and Nessie at the Losuia Airport Kiriwina, leaving Kiriwina three years ago before COVID lockdowns.
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Thanks Shea Caplice for this great footage :).
