Roll out of GESI and Nutrition Training in ENB
22 Aug 2025
More than fifty lead farmers in the East New Britain Women and Youth in Agriculture (ENBWYIA) of the PNG Agriculture Commercialization and Diversification Cocoa Project (PACD) backed by the PNG Government initiative supported by the World Bank have learnt about the importance of nutrition.
The three days training started from 13th to the 15th of August at the Vunapalading No1 ward, in the Gazelle District of East New Britain.
The farmers were guided into insightful presentations that imparted them with vital knowledge on food nutrition as a key aspect of healthy living and achieving food security.
According to ENBWYIA Executive Manager Kiteni Kurika there are 500 farmers contracted to the ENBWYIA association PACD Partnership under 10 cluster groups spread across the remote parts of Inland and Lassul Baining in the Gazelle district and spread to few communities in Balanataman, Vunadidr, Kerevat, Vunamami, Bitapaka Ramale and Vunapalading and in Pomio upper and lower Sinivit adding to more than 80 wards.
Mrs Kurika said that the training adds to other trainings that the lead farmer has already received, especially in broiler poultry management, cocoa management, financial literacy, empowering youth and families, gender and equality and social inclusion among others.
This is the first training on the first day they learn gender and gender equality and social inclusion, communication and decision making, family as a team. On Tuesday financial literacy or money management and on the third day they cover nutrition. The team also done baseline survey with the participants farmers.
“For the good and sake of the farmers and for the good of the project, this a very important issues in the country and this training is to improve the life of our people,” said Kiteni. “I am leading an association that represent the farmers, and we sacrifice for the good of our farming families,’’.
The farmers are into the poultry project and after the training the farmers also received their drinkers and feeders and kerosene lamp in preparation for their day-old chicks arrived early next month. It was a three-day training that brought bright lights to the farming families from Inland Baining, hard to express because the knowledge revived on gender, money management and nutrition cut through their bones and marrows.
A young mother Melisha Yali expressed that she was very fortunate to attend the training and learn a lot about communication, working together as a family, managing money to managing a healthy family through good nutrition and family planning and ending with presenting feeder’s drinkers and lamps.
The farmers were guided into insightful presentations that imparted them with vital knowledge on food nutrition as a key aspect of healthy living and achieving food security.
According to ENBWYIA Executive Manager Kiteni Kurika there are 500 farmers contracted to the ENBWYIA association PACD Partnership under 10 cluster groups spread across the remote parts of Inland and Lassul Baining in the Gazelle district and spread to few communities in Balanataman, Vunadidr, Kerevat, Vunamami, Bitapaka Ramale and Vunapalading and in Pomio upper and lower Sinivit adding to more than 80 wards.
Mrs Kurika said that the training adds to other trainings that the lead farmer has already received, especially in broiler poultry management, cocoa management, financial literacy, empowering youth and families, gender and equality and social inclusion among others.
This is the first training on the first day they learn gender and gender equality and social inclusion, communication and decision making, family as a team. On Tuesday financial literacy or money management and on the third day they cover nutrition. The team also done baseline survey with the participants farmers.
“For the good and sake of the farmers and for the good of the project, this a very important issues in the country and this training is to improve the life of our people,” said Kiteni. “I am leading an association that represent the farmers, and we sacrifice for the good of our farming families,’’.
The farmers are into the poultry project and after the training the farmers also received their drinkers and feeders and kerosene lamp in preparation for their day-old chicks arrived early next month. It was a three-day training that brought bright lights to the farming families from Inland Baining, hard to express because the knowledge revived on gender, money management and nutrition cut through their bones and marrows.
A young mother Melisha Yali expressed that she was very fortunate to attend the training and learn a lot about communication, working together as a family, managing money to managing a healthy family through good nutrition and family planning and ending with presenting feeder’s drinkers and lamps.
