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I spent 2 weeks in Pori and witnessed the launching of Pori Womens Association and also during Christmas, the member for Tari Pori and National Minister for Education, The Hon James Marabe opened a satellite landline telephone installed at Pori donated through the CIEDA Projects. It was a Christmas blessing for Pori Community with a computer and a fax machine with the satellite disc. All have been installed at the back of the library building and the 6 land lines connected to one server.

Currently the lines are open and Pori community making free calls untill such time all the 6 lines will be blocked for out going calls and the public will be buying telikards for making out going calls. The Pori station is currently using a small 5KV generator owned by a local man and used on a hired bases. We a praying for a bigger and better generator to supply electricity to the whole community including the mission station, health centre and Pori primary school.

The Minister for Education will be launching the CIEDA organisation in April, 2010. Currently, the Pori community will be working on the airstrip and doing preparations for the launching of CIEDA organisation. There will be a team of 10 men visiting several outstation awareness for the CIEDA in Koroba Kopiago and Tari district from Pori. All the Pori elders and leaders agreed to host and launch out CIEDA organisation in Pori and the Minister for Education Hon James Marabe was told to bring in more National Ministers to withness the launching of CIEDA organisation.

The Minister for National Education, the Hon James Marabe  is an elected member for Pori Tari and is a young Christian man who hails from Habare SDA station in Tari and a God fearing man who has heart for rural communities and villages like Pori. He recognised the CIEDA organisation as a vechicle to bring development to needy communities. The Minister James Marabe was elected in parliament in 2007 National elections. A strong Christian with a willing heart donated K10'000:00 cash to buy books and materials for the Pori Library and presented a satellite VSAT telephone and installed at Pori through the CIEDA program. There are currently 6 land lines connected and the general community will be using telikards to do outside calls. Also a fax machine and computer was included in the package and installed in the library. The minister has also seen the clearance of the airstrip and encourage the community to pray and continue to work on the airstrip through the CIEDA organisation. During the launching of CIEDA, Minister Marabe will be inviting other ministers to attend the ceremony at Pori.

The Pori Womens Association is an interdenominational Christian association covering the Duna dialect speaking group of women in Koroba, Kopiago and Pori districts. It was launched in Pori as Pori was the central place for the Koroba, Kopiago and Pori districts to gather and share ideas, skills and fellowship together. Also the need to address issues of women and girls face today in rural places in Koroba, Kopiago and Pori districts in the newly created Hela province in Papua New Guinea.


The second secretary for Minister of Education Hon James Marabe and Member for Pori Tari, Mr Thomas Petrus who was a former member for Koroba Lake Kopiago was the guest speaker and presented K3:000:00 to the Rural Duna Womens Association. The association is named as Rural Duna Womens Association chaired by Gina Kelo who is a Bible school and women groups teacher serving in one of the rural bible schools in the Ialibu districts of Southern Highlands. Gina is teaching with her Husband Vincent Kelo and both plan to lead the Rural Duna women association in the New Hela Province. Other Duna women in Auwi Lakayu, Kopiago and North Koroba along the Tubutu river plan to attend the 3 days workshop organised by CIEDA before the launching of CIEDA organisation in Pori in mid April, 2010. CIEDA organisation has been working together with the women groups, church groups, schools, health clinics, rural local level government office and wards in the Dunal and Hela region to bring development and changes in the communities.