2019 has been off to a busy start! The first two weeks has seen us partner with our friends at Sago Network to install seven new Sago Dry Toilets at our Kokoda College facility in remote Kou Kou village. The project included Sago Dry Toilet facility construction, building training, workshop facilitation and the distribution of female hygiene kits and workshop resource materials.

KTF is excited to extend the January 5 deadline for all 2019 Archer Leadership Program applications. Due to an overwhelming response to the applications received to date and because of recent poor weather in Port Moresby, KTF will keep applications open until close of business on FRIDAY 25 JANUARY 2019.

The provision of early childhood education in Hela province has improved following the graduation of 249 elementary teachers from the province. The teachers were part of the Teach for Tomorrow project; a two-year national teacher training program that is a partnership between Australian NGO, KTF, the National Department of Education and various provincial departments of education.

Clean affordable solar lighting is now a reality for remote communities along the Kokoda Track. A partnership between KTF and the Australian Government (Kokoda Initiative), with generous in-kind support from PNG Air, has illuminated 291 households in 10 communities along the Kokoda Track. Household solar lighting and energy systems were installed onto every home in the villages of Naoro 2, Efogi 1 & 2, Kagi, Alola, Abuari, Isurava, Kovello and Hoi and all smaller villages in between.