A Women’s group from Doromoku village, in Kairuku Hiri, Central Province, have recently launched their first ever Country Women’s Association Group (CWA) in their area and in Central Province as a whole.
The CWA Doura Kabema’una Women’s Group, has officially become a branch of the Country Women’s Association which is a worldwide charitable organization.
According to CWA National Council President of PNG, Rachel Gware, CWA aims to improve the conditions for country women and children and to try to make life better for them, especially to those living in rural and remote areas.
She said the launching of the new group will improve the livelihood of women and their families.
“With the establishing of the new group, they can now fully participate in activities and projects that CWA plans to carry out. CWA Doura association group will now appoint representatives to bring forth and lead the way for them.”
“Every year we appoint two female representatives from each of the 22 provinces to go to Suva in Fiji to take up Home Economics training which will go on for nine months. Once they have completed training, they then come back to train the bulk of the women in their respective provinces.”
According to the coordinator of the CWA Doura Kabema’una Women’s group, Helen Gorogo, she said that this was a proud moment for the women in the area to become part of an organization for the first time.
Gorogo said that with the launching of the new group, they are now looking forward to the upcoming projects that CWA will bring to them.
She said that projects such as farming, SMEs, health program trainings, early childhood development programs and such will also be introduced soon in the area to improve the livelihood of locals especially the women.
“We are definitely looking forward to projects such as farming, SMEs, health training programs and such that will follow after this launching is complete. With some of these projects already put in place by some of our local mothers, we hope that CWA will boost the hard work of our mothers.”
“In addition to this, we also hope that in terms of our health training programs, the CWA will help train our women who are willing to learn and help our community in the future.”
Gorogo added that the launching is the first of its kind in the area and in Central Province as a whole to have a women’s group like this.
“I am very excited to see our projects grow from a small scale to a larger scale and to most importantly improve the livelihoods of our locals, especially women.”
