Wednesday April 17, 2013 More than 10,000 cocoa farming families on Karkar Island in Madang Province will be better off under a rehabilitation project being jointly funded by PNG Sustainable Development Program Ltd.

The project financing agreement was signed today by the company, the Member for Sumkar, Mr Ken Fairweather, and representatives of the PNG Cocoa Coconut Institute and the provincial and national governments.

Saturday 13 April, 2013 An 11-kilometre community road allowing the Homaria people of Margarima, Hela Province, to access their forest resources, was completed in January this year.

The two-phase project was funded by PNG Sustainable Development Program Limited in partnership with the Catholic Diocese of Mendi. The comany provided K40,000 for phase one of the initiative in 2009 to buy picks, shovels, wheelbarrows and other tools and to transport gravel. The community provided sweat equity.

Friday April 12, 2013 A 12-month potato farming project funded by PNG Sustainable Development Program Limited was officially opened today in the Lower Wage LLG of Margarima, Hela Province.

Two hours by road from Tari, the 1,000 people of the Kapendaga community live in a remote and mountainous area of the Komo-Magarima District.

Beginning in the 1980s the five ethnic clans of Kapendaga were tribal enemies. However, with deteriorating living standards, the late 1990s saw a transformation for the better, where community leaders opted to put their differences aside, uniting as one community and establishing the Kapendaga Rangers Co-operative Society.