Health
Access to basic healthcare is a fundamental human right and is more important than ever in a COVID-19 world. Our work in health gives remote and rural communities in PNG access to high-quality primary healthcare including immunisations for babies and children, pre and post-natal care for mothers and their babies and live-saving medicines for all who need it. It also provides the education and supplies needed to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 in the remote communities we work with. KTF’s health projects are promoting healthy lives and wellbeing for all at all ages.
Healthy Communities
Our Healthy Communities project supports the postings and salaries of community health workers and health assistants - the cornerstone of rural PNG healthcare system - in remote aid posts and health centres in the Oro and Central Provinces. We support infrastructure and maintenance of these facilities and provide them with a regular supply of drugs and medical supplies for reliable operations.
VHA
In partnership with ADI, the VHA program aims to increase demand, uptake and access to routine immunisations, and maternal and child health services. This program targets remote zero-dose and low-dose villages in Oro Province. Bolstering access to basic health services is critical for strengthening health resilience in last-mile communities.
Eye See PNG
Our Eye See PNG project provides specialised eye health training to community health workers and wide scale vision testing and provision of corrective spectacles to communities across PNG. Whilst our training focuses on building knowledge and skills around a wide range of eye health issues, our vision testing focuses on providing spectacles at scale for refractive error, improving vision and quality of life.
Project Airborne
Project Airborne is KTF’s dedicated response to COVID-19, a fundamental project that ensures our critical projects in education, equality and leadership, as well as the provision of primary healthcare, can continue in under our ‘niupela pasin’, or new normal. Project Airborne provides essential supplies and awareness to help keep communities and our people safe and well during the pandemic.
Kicks 4 Kokoda
A healthier, safe and more inclusive young community, one practice at a time.
Kicks 4 Kokoda is using the power of soccer to connect young women and men with the mentors, information and health services they need to grow, develop and thrive.
All through the power of sport.
Light for Life
PNG has never undertaken a national mass adult vaccination program: the rollout of COVID-19 will be a country first.
To ensure that health facilities across Oro (Northern) Province are prepared to receive and administer vaccinations when they arrive, KTF is working alongside the Northern Provincial Health Authority to supply and install solar fridges to every operating aid post in the province, regardless of how remote their location.