KTF & LHL

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KTF and Little Hearts Learning are delighted for the opportunity to develop a strategic partnership to take on the challenge of quality education for PNG’s future.

We’re thrilled to announce our partnership with LHL. Together, we will build two early childhood classrooms in rural and remote Papua New Guinea. We’d like to thank the entire team at LHL for their energy, generosity and passion and we’re extremely excited to work together in 2021.

Little Hearts Gorari

Gorari is a community that lies in the historic Kokoda Track catchment, mid-way between the provincial capital of Popondetta and Kokoda. It currently has a Primary & Elementary School that serves a population of 5,000+. The Elementary School is severely overcrowded, with 189 students for only three teachers (though only two of them are active), and no Early Childhood facilities for the children in the region to attend and start their lifelong learning journey.

A new double classroom will allow the current overcrowded elementary school to expand and will introduce a safe new space for early childhood education to occur there for the very first time.

KTF’s Cornelius and Wari are the Elementary Teachers at Gorari Elementary School.

Little Seedlings Kou Kou

Operating from the local community hall in Kou Kou Village in remote Oro Province, Kou Kou Preschool is the first step on the journey of lifelong learning for children as young as 3 and up to 5. It is one of the only pre-schools (early childhood) in Oro Province. Here Gwen Harika, a dedicated KTF funded teacher, with a passion for growing little minds, teaches children from Kou Kou 1, Kou Kou 2 and, due to the school’s good reputation in the broader community, even as far as neighbouring Kokoda Station, a 20-minute walk away.

The addition of a new double classroom, purpose built for ECE, would house Gwen and the children she teaches, and allow expansion of the program to enable double the children to start their life-changing education. It will provide a transformative opportunity for young children across the region, setting them on a pathway for success into formal primary schooling.