2. Over the past 30+ years Suzanne has visited and
led expeditions through the Asia Pacific region
3.
4. ASIA PACIFIC RIM
Papua New Guinea, Torres Strait Is,
Solomon Is, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Fiji, Micronesia, Indonesia ,
Mongolia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Antarctica – to name a few!
49. Current Rotary Projects in PNG
Prosthesis for the Handicapped: Lae Limb Factory
Reconstructive Surgery: Rotary Oceania Medical Aid for Children (ROMAC)
Furniture for community schools: Port Moresby and surrounding Schools
Boroko Secondary Vocational School
Water for rural villages: Mt Hagen
Sponsor-a-Desk: Lae
Youth Centre: Yule Island
"Open Horizons" Lae: Library Program for Schools
Wheel Chairs for Paraplegics
Kokoda Trail Medical Aid Posts
Urban Micro Credit: Port Moresby and Central Province
Vocation Training of Disadvantaged Youth-Port Moresby
"Early Risers": Programme for Disadvantaged High School Students
Scholarships-Disadvantaged Students: Port Moresby
51. Suzanne Noakes
30+ years of Melanesian expeditions.
Two part Coral Sea expedition, October 2018
Exploring Papua New Guinea
& Solomon Islands
6th – 19 th October 2018
Exploring Solomon Islands
& Vanuatu
18th – 29 th October 2018
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53. Expedition log.
21 October, 2018
Near Malaita
There are many different Malaitan language
groups whose members today may interact as
Malaitans, while still maintaining a primary
identity with their own region and its cultural
mores.
Malaitan men (and some women) were the dominant Solomon Islander participants in the
indentured labour trade to Queensland (9,186 contracts between the 1870s and 1903)
Suzanne
Noakes
Part of a tropical archipelago stretching between eastern
Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu, Solomon Islands is a
large nation in Pacific terms, with a population of around
600,000 over almost a thousand islands.
Privileged to do what I do... intro to tour leading, IPT what I do where I go...
Numerous historians, journalists, researches and academics have been debating the State of the Papua New Guinea’s Nation over these past 38 years of independence. I won’t be focusing on this today, I can already hear a number of you saying ‘thank god for that’... What I would like to share with you in my 20mins is an overview of stories, some challenging, most good, - over the past how many years was that? Some 23odd years that I have been travelling through the LAND OF THE UNEXPECTED and beyond. Also some other stories about my philanthropic projects Nothing as large as Rotary however I hope a stories you will enjoy...
Check who has been to PNG? Make light about have to tell the truth now..
Destination I visit
Gone are the days of trekking through forests, canoeing in the sun – now I have a little bit of luxury to journey through the islands
Stay in comfortable lodges and explore during the day
Highlands: European explores did not discover this valley until 1933 after the Leahy brothers wandered into the Papuan Wonderland in the Waghi Valley near Mt Hagen.
The Sepik
These are the sole residence of the island...the introduction of western building material and recent water tank instalation
I have just got back from Mongolia...
Shamanist beliefs are still practised in Mongolia – following traditional belief – worshiping their ancestors and the clear blue sky.
Animist beliefs are still as strong in PNG. as the 95% Christian Beliefs on Sunday – give example of solicitor friends other 5% during the weekdays...with tribal fighting
Where stone age doesn’t seem that long ago
....or not!
... tribal warfare has been replaced (well almost) to the footy grounds in mass Sing Sing competitions....
... Where the land of the unexpected can still surprise – last Hagen show came complete with the Lido Dancers from Paris...
.....and the scary – you can decide me or the skeletons...
Struck by the friendliness of the people – but wary of the simmering tribal tension in some areas...suspicious of everything and everyone
The life is a simple one – hard to deal with the modern era of a cash economy – fuel, school, clothes etc... Explorers reached this area in the late 1800’s
still traditional based on over 3 – 5,000 year old settlement techniques..
Welcome sing sing in each village – similar to us having visitors and inviting them in for a cuppa...
Became entranced with these dancers – electric guitar and key board hitched up to a car battery it was like Bob Marley gone tropo...I ended up buying the skirt and head dress...
The excitement is so overwhelming....I then went onto buy the mask and penis shroud from the Baining daners in New Britain....
Faces of Melanesia always seem to be the kids....
The friendly Faces of Melanesia will always bring you back!...
My life has been enriched and so positively changed by my travels in Papua New Guinea. I have learned volumes from my experiences here, and made dear friends along the way. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead
US anthropologist & popularizer of anthropology (1901 - 1978)
Aid projects – soap making machine micro finance 50-50%
Expedition trips every second year – transport medicine aid and boxes
Medical evacuation for tumor...
Fund schools to build infrasture, sponsor children recent one completed his university and is now a teacher in the Sepik
Sponsored community groups, women’s groups
Disputes arise pigs, land & Women – in that order – also migration of peoples, no fuel, limited food due to change of climate and limited gardens now underwater
Who sponsors my trips to PNG
PETER D. DONIGI, CBE AMBASSADORIPERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE AN HEAD OF THE PAPUA NEW GUINEA DELEGATION 06 JUNE 2000 UNITED NATIONS, NEW YORK - Quote from Some customary laws may seem to the western eye, very archaic and need replacement by western values and standards. Others may be justifiable on the grounds that they have served our people for over 40,000 years and so why should we change them because some foreigner told us to do so. There is however one difference. Western cultures have had a chance to handle change gradually over this time. Papua New Guineans who were using stone tools 75 years ago are now using modern tools and mobile phones. The pace of change in PNG is far faster, within one or two generations, than in the previous 40,000 years.
Cash economy...tourism $$..motorised canoes to take dry fish to markets..cost...water pipes
Art buying benefits to villages...chanllenges cost shipping etc.
What Rotary PNG is doing right now...
Wantok, yugat gutpela wokabaut na lukautim yu yet
(My friend have a good journey and look after yourself)
