Economic Development Open Day

On Thursday, 18 June ADRA held the Economic Development Open Day at the local Eriku Basketball courts.
ADRA PNG's Economic Development Sector includes the Micro Finance project (SED) and the Rural Economic Development (RED) project.
There was a collection of stalls operated by the women from the SED program and also our partners from the RED program.

This is the Cocoa Copra Institute showing types of cocoa and the budding of hybrid clones to existing root stock.

The range of fresh produce in Lae is amazing, temperate vegetables and fruit from the highlands and tropical species from the coast... year round.

The Marching Girls (women) opened proceedings, very enjoyable. As they did their turns they slide their right shoe and looked to the right...and the women in the crowd loved it, with whistles and laughing... I suppose it was the PNG equivalent of 'showing a bit of leg'.

Marilyn with one of the dance/theatre groups that performed... the 'snake man' and his family.

If you want to see the music and dance of this group, check out Raul Schneider's blog listed on the right to see Mathias dancing.

Janice, one of the SED volunteers, who does flower arranging as her business. Her range of gingers is amazing-you cant quite see the hairy ginger hanging down on the left.

Part of the ED team at the end of some very hard days, Lorraine (sitting), Grace (at the centre) and Bonifas, Gabriel probably took the picture.