{"id":608,"date":"2021-04-05T06:06:01","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T06:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/duba.ro\/en\/?p=608"},"modified":"2021-04-12T05:37:42","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T05:37:42","slug":"mamas-life-skills-training-in-tongujamb-sepik-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/duba.ro\/en\/mamas-life-skills-training-in-tongujamb-sepik-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamas’ Life skills training in Tongujamb (Sepik River, PNG)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In front of the whole community, the women who attended the “Life skills training” are awarded a completion certificate. For many of them, is the first certificate they ever obtain, and the first course of formal education they ever attended. Tongujamb, 2015.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Responding to the requests of the women from the Blek Wara<\/em> (a wetland area) close to Washkuk Hill, on the Middle Sepik course, the heads of the communities organized a workshop \u2013 Women life skills training, in Tongujamb, 2015.
The Catholic Church from Wewak sent two sisters to teach them how to bake and sew using a machine. Up to 150 women enrolled for the six days training. To some of them, it took a day of walking and paddling to come to Tongujamb. They paid a 50 Kina fee (20 USD, money which requires weeks of savings) necessary for buying materials and ingredients, like cloth and imported flour. It\u2019s a lot of money for people who seldom have an income.
I questioned how many of them would make use of those skills, but I think that\u2019s less important. They took this initiative and managed to attend vocational training. They are from communities living from the forest, river and swamps, deep in the wetlands surrounding the Sepik River. Most of the adult women have never been to school. According to local administration accounts, there\u2019s around 70% illiteracy.
On the closing day, watched by their relatives and neighbours, the daring women were awarded a Participant Certificate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ground rules for course participants.<\/strong>
1 \u2013 Don\u2019t spit betel nuts!
2 \u2013 Don\u2019t make noise or disturb.
3 \u2013 Don\u2019t fight.
4 \u2013 Respect the others.
5 \u2013 Share.
6 \u2013 Don\u2019t steal.
7 \u2013 Need something, ask for it.
8 \u2013 You have questions, look for the committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n