What inspired you to do the Walk In Her Shoes challenge? I read about the Walk In Her Shoes challenge and felt compelled to act. I suppose because I have three beautiful young girls myself. If they are thirsty, they just walk a few steps to our kitchen tap to grab a glass of water […]
‘I am somebody now’: Living with HIV in Bougainville PNG

by Lyrian Fleming, CARE’s Education Coordinator Sylvester Pokona is just 38 years old, but has the life experience of a man much older. A survivor of the Bougainville crisis – the civil war which gripped Bougainville in Papua New Guinea from 1988 to 1990, all the events of his life since then have been impacted […]
Bringing clean, safe water to remote shores in PNG

By Lyrian Fleming, CARE Development Education Coordinator You know you’re headed somewhere off the beaten track when you strap on a life vest and jump in a small boat for a four hour journey across the open sea. As a somewhat nervous seafarer, I couldn’t help but look up at the skies, willing the grey […]


