Director for Community Development Agencies Yanny Guman has been working with communities in Simbu Province in addressing gender based issues faced by the people for sometime now.
Most of the work of their Agency is creating and building peace among the citizens which they saw that a lot of issues were gender based violence. Mr. Guman said, over the years they have been really working hard to support community leadership in the Simbu Province and with the grant received from the government it will help to support their work for referral pathways by working together with Family Sexual Violence, Family support center and the Welfare.
“With funding, we rely heavily on donor’s support and for a long time we have not received support from the government whether the national, provincial or district, but we do it because there’s a need to do it”.
Community Development Agency is hoping to identify victims or survivors in the rural communities and activate a better process by strengthening the pathways for completely putting an end to the issues.
Meanwhile, Wallis Asi Apaso from Eastern Highlands who resides in Port Moresby commends the Human Rights Activism campaign for a bold stand in addressing what the country is lacking on.
Mr. Apaso has been living in the city for a long time and he’s been very observant in the way people behave in the city.
“About 40 years ago, people have respect for Human Rights unlike today where respect is no more. Lately we have been experiencing a lot of deaths from manslaughter and our behaviors have changed, seeing a lot of chaos around our places”.
He urged that Government must deliver awareness to communities and work together with agencies and churches to carry out the campaign aggressively in order to save the lives of people.