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IWP Community Champions
The IWP "Community
Champions" are Pacific Islanders who are working in their communities
to improve the management of waste, water or coastal fisheries.
Cook Islands |
Mama Terii
Simpson is a member of the Cook Islands IWP Local Project
Committee (LPC) and a project “champion” who is interested in
helping to improve access to safe drinking water for all Cook
Islanders. |
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Papua New Guinea |
Kelly
Madu is the Councillor responsible for village of Barakau,
located just 40 kilometres east of the PNG capital, Port Moresby.
Kelly is working with the PNG IWP trying try and find find effective
ways for Barakau to reduce the growing amount of solid and liquid
waste that is threatening the health and well being of this coastal
community. |
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Vanuatu |
Chief
Manoa Kaun
is the Chief of Louni Village, one of several villages that
make up the community of Crab Bay, on Vanuatu’s Malekula
Island. Manoa is at the forefront of the IWP’s efforts to
try and find practical ways to help Vanuatu’s coastal communities
strengthen the management of their rapidly dwindling coastal resources.
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Kiribati |
Tekori
Ruka is
showing her neighbours in Bikenibeu West, South Tarawa, how to
turn organic “rubbish” into valuable compost for their
fruit and vegetable gardens. |
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Fiji |
Pita
Vatucawaqa is the Chair of the Environment
Committee for Vunisinu and Nalase - two small rural villages just
45 minutes drive from Suva on the island of Viti Levu. Pita has
been a key figure in the IWP’s efforts to find effective
ways to strengthen the management of solid and liquid waste in
Fiji’s rural communities. |
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Tuvalu |
Semeli Manase is the Treasurer and Secretary for the Senala Community in Funafuti. He is entrusted with a range of responsibilities such as looking after the community's supplies of fresh water . His family has one of the few composting toilets in Tuvalu and he has been working with the IWP to actively promotes them as a way of protecting the sensitive groundwater from contamination. |
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Marshall Islands |
Alab Anwel Biranej and Leiroj Takbad Ishiguro are two traditional leaders from the village of Jenrok on Majuro Atoll. They are both working closely with the IWP to try and find ways to help the Government improve the management of waste throughout the Marshall Islands. |
