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Kobo Village Women Empowerment Training
Gabby's 23rd Birthday Fundraiser Report A Women Empowerment Project Conducted by the Morobe Development Foundation Inc. Written by: Willie Doaemo: MDF Founder and CEO Gabby Richardson: MDF Fundraiser Coordinator, Content Strategist and Researcher Image taken by Tanya...
Women Empowerment Project – Bread and Jam Making Workshop in Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea
Photo credit: Tanya Zeriga The Morobe Development Foundation Inc. is committed to creating valuable occupational and educational opportunities for women in Papua New Guinea. This year for her 23rd birthday, MDF researcher and blog writer Gabby Richardson has decided...
Runoff Water Quality in the Bumbu Watershed, Papua New Guinea – MDF Research
Image source: click here With the establishment of an increasing number of industries, growing settlement populations, unregulated urban expansion and deforestation, water resources in the Lae region of the Morobe province have come under dire stress (Kaupa, 2012;...
Water Quality and Sanitation in Papua New Guinea
Image source: UNICEF 2018 Papua New Guinea’s population has some of the poorest access to clean water in the world. The nation ranks at the bottom of all Pacific countries for water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) related statistics, which pertain to clean water, water...
Forest Deforestation and Degradation in Papua New Guinea – Issue, Assessment and Solutions
"Awane Chief, Gamaura Sagigi and his wife Kamsong Sagigi demonstrate herbal medicine in Awane forest land. The forest provides food, medicine, craft and building materials for the Awane clan. Awane community forestry project, Madang, Papua New Guinea. Global forest...
Rising Sea Levels in Papua New Guinea – A Brief Overview
Image source: click here Climate change is an extremely serious issue affecting our planet and it has caused global sea levels to rise. Rising sea levels especially threaten lowland communities, coasts and islands- Papua New Guinea being one of them. Rising sea level...
Papua New Guinea Mining: Place, Space, Power and Projects
Image source: click here The Mining Situation in Papua New Guinea The highlands of Papua New Guinea have been open to mining activities since the 1980s.The industry has significantly contributed to the growth of Papua New Guinea’s economy, as according to World...
The Current Gender Based Violence (GBV) Situation in Papua New Guinea
Image source: https://www.pngfacts.com/gender-based-violence-in-png/png-domestic-violence-statistics (Live in Peace: Image source. Cuma PNG) Since this is the first blog post on the Morobe Development Foundation’s website in a little over a year, I thought it was...
Analytical Protocol to Estimate the Relative Importance of Environmental and Anthropogenic Factors in Influencing Runoff Quality in the Bumbu Watershed, Papua New Guinea
Willie Doaemo 1,2, Lawrence Wuest 3, Shaurya Bajaj 4, Wan Shafrina Wan Mohd Jaafar 5 and Midhun Mohan 4,6 1Department of Civil Engineering, Papua New Guinea University of Technology, Lae 00411, Papua New Guinea2Morobe Development Foundation, Doyle Street, Trish...
Exploring Forest Change Spatial Patterns in Papua New Guinea: A Pilot Study in the Bumbu River Basin
Willie Doaemo 1,2, Midhun Mohan 3,4, Esmaeel Adrah 4, Shruthi Srinivasan 5 and Ana Paula Dalla Corte 6 1Department of Civil Engineering, Papua New Guinea University of Technology, Lae 00411, Papua New Guinea2Morobe Development Foundation, Doyle Street, Trish...
The Kamiali Wildlife Management Area
Image source: click here The Kamiali Wildlife Management Area is a 69,000 hectare reserve located on the Huon Gulf Coast, 60km southeast of Lae, Papua New Guinea (Lonely planet; Bein, Janelle, Warf & Hansen 2004). The reserve was registered as a wildlife...