Eastern Highlands Family Voice Issue 2 - 09

Issue 2, 2009,

[April—June] 2009

HIGHLIGHTS FROMSECONDQUARTER Board & Management

New Team Members

Board and Staff

Ms Anisha Tenaen , New Hanover joined Family Voice as the Finance Manager in May 2009. She left a very good job in the private sector to work with Family Voice because of her personal values to work with the vulnerable and disadvantaged members of our communities.

The Board & Management are very grateful to all those who have contributed to the work of Family Voice over the 9 years of its existence. As a local NGO we have achieved much with the limited resources we have.

Mr Hona Javati

We have seen increases in the Board Chairman number of people being supported through our valuable work. The work demands commitment and time and we are so ever grateful to our committed Board members, staff and volunteers.

Ms Anisha Tenaen Finance Manager

The Board and Management would like to thank its developmental partners like Save the Children in PNG, International Women’s Development Agency, HorizonT3000, Democratic Governance Transition Phase “I graduated in Economics at UPNG and have worked and the Law & Justice Sector Program in EHP for their with several Organizations. I previously worked for valuable ongoing support. World Wide Investment as Account before moving onto Family Voice.

Organisational Development

Promoting personal values and respect were the key Family Voice has just completed an external organfactors that helped me to join Family Voice as I izational review to assess its performance in the last deemed it an organization that fosters such values”. years and to plan for a better way forward. It takes

Family Voice believes that the strength of the organization is in mentoring & training young men and women to take ownership of the values of the organization and take it to the next level. Ms Daisy Samuel is one of the founding members of Family Voice and she started work in March. Family Voice welcomes her and thanks her for her commitment to the work of Family Voice.

courage for any organization to allow external persons to review its work. Family Voice sees this process as healthy, transparent and accountable. It looks forward to implementing the recommendations of the report and be more focused on implementing programs which reduce family and sexual violence in families in the province. APPRECIATION

You bring sunshine into our lives!

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“I served on the board during the early days of Family Voice . I am so delighted to work for the organization I had contributed in building”. I am excited to see many gifted young people now at the forefront driving the work of the organization with great zeal and enthusiasm. I desire to see the organization advance to higher heights “

Bamahuta Lalokau!

Mrs Luania Kiori contributed significantly to the work of Family Voice. She started as a volunteer to Board member and Senior Counselor. Her strong Christian and family values were reflected in the compassionate and loving way she dealt worked with staff, Board and clients. She was bid farewell by Family Voice after she retired.

Community Education Programs Kids Keep Safe Kids keep safe is a program designed especially for children. It trains children how to identify all forms of abuse and to report any form of abuse to someone they trust will do something about it.

Children spending quality time at Family Voice office during school holidays!

Counselling Support & Referral Services Family Voice continues to support many women, children and men to deal with family problems in a positive non violent manner.

A man from Okapa met the Executive Officer in one of the stores and thanked her for the talk on the radio program as it really helped him and his family.

Information is power says everyone but many people in PNG cannot access information. We give them the power to information when we make it available to them in their TEAR own context and they are able to use DOWN THE CURTAINS Volunteer Support Program OF LIES!

Family Voice would like to salute those brave women, children and men for breaking the silence around family violence and seeking help. However, there are also great numbers of people who are in abusive relationships in their marriages and families and they need to stop living behind the curtains of lies because of many reasons like status, education etc and seek assistance.!

Volunteers trained by Family Voice continue to do valuable work in their respective communities to reduce family violence. Family Voice provides regular supervision and monitoring to them to support their work. They are brought into town on a quarterly basis to meet and celebrate successes and address challenges. They meet with the rest of the Family Voice staff to strengthen the team work.

FAMILY VOICE PROVIDES CONFIDENTIAL PHONE COUNSELLING AS WELL!

Networks & Partnerships We are guilty of many errors and faults, But our worst crime is abandoning the children, Neglecting the foundation of life. Many of the things we need can wait. The Child cannot. Right now is the time his/her bones are being formed, His/her blood is being made and senses are being developed. To him/her we cannot answer, “TOMORROW”, His name is “TODAY”.

Family Voice has always made it a priority to acknowledge the valuable work done by other organizations and work in partnership to deliver services to our people. Some of the coordinated activities attended by Family Voice included;

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5th Regional Meeting to Eliminate Violence against Women, Fiji

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5 Year Child Protection Plan workshop for EHP, Goroka

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Juvenile Justice Working Committee Meeting

Civil Society Organizations Capacity Building Forum, Gaire Village, Central Province. Human Rights Networking Meetings.

- Gabriela Mistral, Chilean Nobel Prize Winner

PLANS FOR NEXT QUARTER Family Voice will continue to implement its planned programs during the next quarter and some of them but additional activities include the following;    

One week community training patrol to Unggai sub District in July. Observance of Father’s Day in September 2009. Develop plans to implement the recommendations of the External Organizational Review. Ensure Deloitte produce long delayed Audit Report for Family Voice.

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