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Kup Women for Peace sow seeds of hope
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| Kup villagers receive pigs and other materials to help support livelihoods and conflict prevention in the PNG Highlands. Photo: Oxfam/Eileen Kolma |
Yet, on May 1 2007, at the Kup Catholic Mission Station, to the wide-eyed delight of the community and much cheering, one by one, 52 youth groups received materials that included goats, rabbits, chicken, pigs, cement bags, and pipes for fish farming. No cash was distributed. Clothes sewn by local youth groups were also set out for public display.
“We didn’t think such a thing could happen here in Kup”, said Boi Yanny, President of the Offcut Youth Group who received several chickens and chicken feed.
“This is a dream come true for us and we are very happy and grateful.”
With great joy and much celebration the leaders of the groups came forward to receive their project materials to traditional Chimbu cries of appreciation by their women.
Their benefactors, the Kup Women for Peace (KWP), were simple, ordinary women with hearts of gold and extra-ordinary courage and strength who had fought to restore peace in their community for the last six years, with support from Oxfam International (PNG).
For the community, this initiative brought home several realisations: that development is possible with peace; that their development is possible by themselves. And with this programme, seeds of hope have been planted for a better future.
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