Bank South Pacific Supports AngliCARE PNG with K50 000

The Bank South Pacific (BSP) made their annual generous donation of K 50 000 to support the ongoing work of Anglicare PNG. Over the years BSP has stood with Anglicare by supporting what they do in the communities. On behalf of the Anglicare Foundation, Corporate Manager Collin Andamale thank the Bank South Pacific for this timely donation.

With the funding from BSP, It will be used to set a;

1. Food Bank/Baskets

Anglicare PNG will set-up its own Food Bank and Storage facilities. This is in line with what the World Health Organisation (WHO) also recommends, the provision of food baskets at the start of ART to combat the excessive hunger that people with HIV, especially those initiating treatment, can experience.

Anglicare will make a substantial efforts to integrate food and nutritional support into its care package for people with HIV. Through the food Bank and storage facilities we can be able to provide nutritious meal for our beneficiaries.

Anglicare National Director Heni Meke said that, Anglicare has substantial evidence that, while rapid scale-up of access to ART is a positive thing, starting patients on ART without ensuring full adherence through an adequate nutritional support system is likely to lead to treatment failure. Evidence suggests that people who receive food supplements recover faster than those who do not so ART access must therefore be just one component in a comprehensive package of care for people with HIV that includes nutritional support.

She also said that, our clients have greater nutritional needs, because their bodies are fighting to reduce their concentration of HIV virus; but HIV and inadequate nutrition reinforce one another in many other ways. When symptomatic, HIV causes food insecurity by making people feel ill and weak, and less able to work to get food. In turn, a lack of adequate nutrition can significantly worsen the health and quality of life of patients. Many lose weight because of chronic ill health – especially if they are co-infected with tuberculosis (TB), a common condition and the greatest killer of HIV-positive people.

Therefore Anglicare PNG has realign this strategy as part of HIV/AIDs program under Client Services Unit that will include nutrition in HIV treatment and care programs.

We thank you Bank of South Pacific for the generous donation.

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Sir Brian Bell Foundation Supports Anglicare PNG Inc. with K200 000.00 to Address HIV/AIDs in PNG.

The Sir Brian Bell Foundation has made a generous commitment to support the ongoing work of Anglicare PNG in the fight against HIV/AIDS in PNG. The funding is timely as there is a funding shift by the donors and with the generous donation from the Sir Brian Bell Foundation, Anglicare PNG can continue to help their current 1000+ patients who are on lifelong treatment and who will need a continuum of care and support through treatment after testing. A proven fact is that early detection & continued treatment can lead to an extended lifespan.

The generous donation will directly benefit the beneficiaries in these areas;

DROP IN CENTER (DIC)

Through this donation the DIC will be able to open more days in the week for Nutritional feeding for clients that are very sick and under nourished.

Orphaned children, widows, couples and that are rejected by families registered at DIC will also be able to increase from the current number of 60 now registered.

Currently working on a budget of K600.00 per week the donation will enable more clients to seek nutritional meals on a more regular basis as well as seek out additional counselling from the Anglicare PNG expert staff on site.

The donation will enable the continuation of home client visits where clients are visited at home or hospital every Monday, Tuesdays and Thursdays with hygiene products for those who cannot afford it.

COUNSELLING SERVICE

This service is provided at Begabari clinic where all the newly confirmed HIV positive Clients, transferred in clients and referred clients from other facilities are registered for Positive living counselling, ART Adherence session, Nutrition / Hygiene, Risk Reduction, Safe sex and Condom use, Spiritual counselling, Stress and Depressing, Stigma and Discrimination, Discordant Couple one  is negative or  Concordant  Couple  counselling both  positive .

SUPPORT ACTIVITIES

This funding will also support areas where it is needed to utilise for the maximum benefit of the 1000+ registered clients.

The late Sir Brian Bell was a pioneering champion to the response against HIV/AIDs, with prior support to AngliCARE Stop Aids then and now AngliCARE PNG. This latest donation is a commitment to Anglicare PNG Inc as the late Sir Brian Bell’s express wish.

Sir Brian Bell who went on to build a successful Business empire in Papua New Guinea never gave up on the responsibility of giving back to the people of Papua New Guinea.

With this latest donation from the Sir Brian Bell Foundation, Sir Brian’s legacy will continue on in the fight against HIV/AIDS in PNG.

Anglicare Foundation Chairman Sir Kostas Constantinou, OBE in receiving the donation from Sir Brian Bell Foundation CEO, Bronwyn Wright in the presence of Anglicare PNG Staff & Sir Brian Bell Foundation staff mentioned how excited he was to see Sir Brian’s commitment to the people of PNG be carried on and how this donation would have such a positive impact on so many Papuan New Guineans.

Sir Kostas went onto say he was extremely grateful on behalf of the Anglicare Foundation & Anglicare PNG for the commitment being shown by the Sir Brian Bell Foundation in their social and community responsibility.

Sir Brian Bell Foundation CEO Bronwyn Wright mentioned that it had been an express wish of Sir Brian to continue the fight against HIV/AIDS in PNG and how during her tour of the Begabari Clinic at Anglicare Waigani she had been moved by the wonderful work being carried out by Anglicare PNG.

This donation is critical in ensuring Sir Brian’s legacy, through the Sir Brian Bell Foundation, carries on and the Foundation invites other PNG long term companies to become actively involved. HIV/AIDS is a real issue in PNG and impacts on all our staff who are connected in some way to it.

 

Sir Brian Bell Foundation Supports Anglicare PNG with K 200 000.00 to address HIV/AIDs.

The Sir Brian Bell Foundation has made a generous commitment to support the ongoing work of Anglicare PNG in the fight against HIV/AIDS in PNG. The funding is timely as there is a funding shift by the donors and with the generous donation from the Sir Brian Bell Foundation, Anglicare PNG can continue to help their current 1000+ patients who are on lifelong treatment and who will need a continuum of care and support through treatment after testing. A proven fact is that early detection & continued treatment can lead to an extended lifespan.

The generous donation will directly benefit the beneficiaries in these areas;

DROP IN CENTER (DIC)
Through this donation the DIC will be able to open more days in the week for nutritional feeding for clients that are very sick and under nourished.

Orphaned children, widows, couples and that are rejected by families registered at DIC will also be able to increase from the current number of 60 now registered.

Currently working on a budget of K600.00 per week however the donation will enable more clients to seek nutritional meals on a more regular basis as well as seek out additional counselling from the Anglicare PNG expert staff on site.

The donation will enable the continuation of home client visits where clients are visited at home or hospital every Monday, Tuesdays and Thursdays with hygiene products for those who cannot afford it.

COUNSELLING SERVICE

This service is provided at Begabari clinic where all the newly confirmed HIV positive Clients, transferred in clients and referred clients from other facilities are registered for Positive living counselling, ART Adherence session, Nutrition / Hygiene, Risk Reduction, Safe sex and Condom use, Spiritual counselling, Stress and Depressing, Stigma and Discrimination, Discordant Couple one is negative or Concordant Couple counselling both positive.

SUPPORT ACTIVITIES

This funding will also support areas where it is needed to utilize for the maximum benefit of the 1000+ registered clients.

The late Sir Brian Bell was a pioneering champion to the response against HIV/AIDs, with prior support to AngliCARE Stop Aids then and now AngliCARE PNG. This latest donation is a commitment to Anglicare PNG Inc as the late Sir Brian Bell’s express wish.

Sir Brian Bell who went on to build a successful Business empire in Papua New Guinea never gave up on the responsibility of giving back to the people of Papua New Guinea.

With this latest donation from the Sir Brian Bell Foundation, Sir Brian’s legacy will continue on in the fight against HIV/AIDS in PNG.

Anglicare Foundation Chairman Sir Kostas Constantinou, OBE in receiving the donation from Sir Brian Bell Foundation CEO, Bronwyn Wright in the presence of Anglicare PNG Staff & Sir Brian Bell Family mentioned how excited he was to see Sir Brian’s commitment to the people of PNG be carried on and how this donation would have such a positive impact on so many Papuan New Guineans.

Sir Kostas went onto say he was extremely grateful on behalf of the Anglicare Foundation & Anglicare PNG for the commitment being shown by the Sir Brian Bell Foundation in their social and community responsibility.

Sir Brian Bell Foundation CEO Bronwyn Wright mentioned that it had been an express wish of Sir Brian to continue the fight against HIV/AIDS in PNG and how during her tour of the Begabari Clinic at Anglicare Waigani she had been moved by the wonderful work being carried out by Anglicare PNG.

This donation is critical in ensuring Sir Brian’s legacy, through the Sir Brian Bell Foundation, carries on and the Foundation invites other PNG long term companies to become actively involved. HIV/AIDS is a real issue in PNG and impacts on all our staff who are connected in some way to it.

Anglicare Foundation Presents an evening with Hon. Tony Abbott MP

Anglicare PNG will celebrate its inaugural 16^th year anniversary with a fund raising dinner on the 2^nd of November where former Australian Prime Minister the Hon Tony Abbott MP will be guest speaker.

Anglicare Foundation objectives are to set up a fund to assist and sustain the work of Anglicare PNG Inc to:

1. Prevent the spread of HIV, train and treat those infected and affected by HIV and Aids as well as address other welfare needs of all people throughout PNG.

2. Fund and monitor community programmes which are funded from the Anglicare Foundation Fund.
   3. Assess, evaluate and approve for funding, all community projects initiated by and to be implemented, by Anglicare PNG Inc or in partnership with liked-organizations, government, donor organizations and other faith-based organizations.

The evening will also present the first Anglicare PNG marketing video documentary and community services advertisements currently under the productions by EMTV.

The celebrations will continue onto the next day, 3^rd of November 2016 at Anglicare compound when Anglicare will celebrate with theme: “Celebrating 16 years of Community Services Empowerment “

The residents residing in Port Moresby are encouraged to save this date and visit the compound so that they can appreciate what Anglicare does.

Thank you to our Sponsors : Lamana Hotel – Air Ways Hotel – Moore Printing

ANGLICARE PNG ATTENDS ANGLICARE AUSTRALIA NATIONAL CONFERENCE

Anglicare PNG would like to pay its respects to the elders,leaders past and present of the Larrakia people on whose land we have step on to participate in the Anglicare Australia conference up the top end.

Secondly we thank Australia Anglicare for giving us the opportunity to present our paper Titled: Dependent to Independent by Collin Andamale. 

Anglicare PNG team lead by the National Director, Heni Meke, Ruben Fuapo, Mt Hagen Branch Manager, Vivin Ningis, National Gender Officer and Collin Andamale, Anglicare Foundation secretariat learned a lot during the conference.

The event takes place each year and Sydney will host it in 2017 and again Anglicare PNG looks forward to participate.

 

 

Enga Show – Anglicare Wabag Participates

The 2016 Enga cultural show took place from the 5^th to the 7^th of August 2016. These three days event attracted people from all over Enga Province.  They turned up in thousands to both participate and watched the show. The show featured singsing groups, displays of traditional ways of doing things, Live band with local & international artists, games, face painting, food stalls, displays of companies and organizations in which Anglicare was one of them.

Prior to the Enga Show, Wabag Anglicare had written to the Enga Show Organizing Committee to allocate a spot to set up the Anglicare tent free of change. For companies and organizations to set up and take part in the show, they were required to pay a fee of K500. However, Wabag Anglicare’s request to set up for free was approved and the organizing committee allocated a good spot to set up the tent.

In the tent, small compartments were made to do HIV Counselling & Testing, and also for STI treatments. In front of the tent was an information booth where leaflets, brochures, posters and other IEC materials were displayed out for interested individuals.

New KP Project – Mt Hagen

Anglicare PNG (APNG) through its  Mt Hagen branch has taken on board an approved Key Population (KP) Project through the OIL SEARCH FOUNDATION (OSF), the Global Fund (GF) principal recipient to roll out KP Outreach Program.  Agreement by Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), Australia and GF as Donor partners was reached for APNG to implement this project.

Furthermore an understanding was reached between Anglicare and Baptiste Union Papua New Guinea (BuPNG)- (existing KP Project in Mt Hagen under DFAT) for Anglicare PNG to extend the work of HIV Prevention Outreach KP Program to the not identified hot spot areas where BuPNG has not covered in Mt Hagen city and its surrounding areas.
With the clear understanding and consent from the donor partners and KP program partners, Anglicare Mt. Hagen rolled out the KP Program in June 2016.

                                                                       

 

 

 

Anglicare PNG INC Changes its Logo in the Light of its National Strategic Plan (NSP) 2015 – 2020

New Anglicare Logo is design on the backdrop of the Anglicare’s National Strategic Plan 2015-2020. “To be a leading development organisation”. Simple but yet powerfully articulated to give Anglicare PNG a cutting edge identity.

ANGLICARE’S SIGNITURE

Top of the range colours are selected and brought forward to artistically curved out to form Papua New Guinea’s very own Bird of Paradise. Anglicare’s own signature logo that will be cherished for the generations to come.

Anglicare PNG new Logo is a  registered trade mark with Investment Promotion Authority as per PNG TRADE MARK ACT (CHAPTER 385), section 12.

COLOURS

Colour Layout – Each colour is layout distinctively, emanating the different people with different ethnic groups Anglicare serves.

Different People – Colour speaks of the colourful people and their breath-taking cultures of the 23 Provinces, they come together in one embodiment. Different colours united by our identity (Kumul).

Satisfaction – The colours a specifically chosen to give you that feeling of satisfaction and completeness. The colours have been meticulously woven together best possible so that negative feeling is done away. Colours bringing reflection of good things when it meets the eye.

BIRD OF PARADISE

National Identity – The bird gives the national identity to Papua New Guinea. This typifies the direction Anglicare is taking from now and beyond, to be a leading national and research organisation in the country. This is our identity.

Unique – The bird resemblances the uniqueness of the type only found in Papua New Guinea. This typifies the locally developed and adapted approach the organisation enjoys. Anglicare is original and unique in this modern-day and age which others will want to emulate.

National Symbol – The bird is the National Symbol and the face of Papua New Guinea, This typifies that Anglicare will be a beacon of hope for the hopeless and the face of providing quality services. Anglicare will be the Last line of defence left standing to serve.

ANGLI-CARE PNG

Angli – Anglicare maintain its originating identity and roots. This reflects that Anglicare is the social welfare arm of the Anglican Church. This is the church’s way of serving the community through Health, Education and Community development Services.

Care – Church’s underlying philosophy “Anglican Church Cares” for you.

PNG – The Acronym of country that we serve, Papua New Guinea.

AT WORK IN OUR COMMUNITY

Our core work is to help men, women, youths and children. Together they form a family unit. Families live together in an area, forming a community. It is in this community that Anglicare exists to serve – “At work in our community”.

 

 

KIMBE here we come!!!

L-R APNG National Director Heni Meke, ABM rep Meagan Schwarz,CPP National Coordinator Jeffrey Kaka and Shaddie Tapo M&E Manageress part take in a discussion session during the CPP Forum in Kokopo, PNG, 2015

The Anglicans are hosts to the Second Biannual CPP Forum for 2015 in October

The CPP National Coordinator for the Anglican Church Mr. Jeffrey Kaka and his team from Anglicare PNG Inc. in the presence of the Church Partners received the torch from the SDA Church during the Kokopo CPP Forum.

The forum held in Kokopo itself is the 20^th since its inception in 2004 and the 21^st forum and the second for this year will be held in Kimbe, West New Britain Province here in Papua New Guinea.

ADRA was the hosting organization under the SDA Church and according to the church partners, it attained a successful outcome in fulfillment of the theme “LESSONS LEARNT-Churches Shaping PNG”

The ADRA team really had the participants on their toes during the welcome dinner hosted by the Sonoma Adventists College body. The dinner was one of a kind which had set a high standard that the Church Partners will now have to maintain this high standard.

Anglicare PNG Inc. the Community Development arm of the Anglican Church will spearhead the organizing of the 21^st Biannual CPP Forum this year (2015) in Kimbe.

Preparations are underway.

ADRA hosts CPP Forum, which ends on a high note.

Church Leaders & Partners welcomed at the Sonoma Adventist College for the opening dinner of the CPP Forum hosted by the SDA Church

Church Leaders & Partners from PNG and abroad during discussion time at the Hauswin Restaurant of the Kokopo Beach Bungalow Hotel. 2015

The first biannual CPP Forum was held in Kokopo from the 27^th – 30^th of April 2015 at the Kokopo Beach Bungalow Hotel.

The forum was well attended by church leaders and development partners of the following mainline churches; Anglican, Baptists Union of PNG, Catholic Church, Salvation Army, Seventh Day Adventist Church, and the United Church, collaborating under the PNG/Australia Church Partnership Program (CPP).

The forum discussed on the theme: “LESSONS LEARNT-Churches Shaping PNG” in which the expected outcomes of the forum would be to enable the forum to see collectively how the churches have performed over the years against the outcomes areas.

This in general leading to the forum drawing out lessons learnt that are identified – and what factors contributed to the achievements, what can we learn from that, what approaches do the churches want to maintain in the next phase (III) or how will we do it differently to achieve maximum impact.

Which additionally brought the following;

1. To identify and celebrate the Program achievements
2. To identify the program strengths and opportunities
3. To be able to vision areas for improvement and think if possibilities in the next phase.