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Addiction
Visit Port Moresby PNG by team addiction experts from Holland
Who we talked to / trained
• Start conference• Ginigoada 2 churches/ programs in
communities• Training Laloki hospital• Talk US embassy US health affair• Visit ED department general hospital• Talk with NCDC
Who we talked to / trained
• Visit Pari Village• Training/ talk with bureau Narcotics• Open training ( 2x) on life style training &
motivational interviewing;
What we saw
• Country full of possibilities• City full of possibilities• Strong social structures• Strong communities
What we talked about/ trained :
• What is addiction?• Starts as a bad habit• Becomes addiction = illness• Stopping is learning process, takes a long time• Falling and standing up again• Motivating essential• Punishing alone does not help• Praising efforts, making a plan does
Lots of opportunities
• Number one: working together! • There are lots of initiatives that work• Working together , talking to each other,
knowing what everybody is doing will enforce the positive movement!
• Make a social card of all organisations busy with the subject
Working together
• Bureau narcotics• Church leaders• Pastor Mike & Ginigoada• NCDC ( Social division)• Police• Communities• Mental health care• Etc. Etc. etc
opportunities
• Number two education• Youth = future of the country• Make knowledge about addiction part of
curriculum
opportunities
• Number 3• On all levels : give voice to the silence• Try to understand the problems of addiction
opposed to bad habit;• Talk about it, enable people to talk about the
problems caused by addiction
opportunities
• Number four:
• Empower women in communities
• Start with for instance Pari Village supporting a monthly meeting of the widows who want to stand up and help each other!
opportunities
• Start a ginigoada like program about alcohol and marihuana etc
• Make good PR for good initiatives , like the christmas project form NCDC
• Make more programs to prevent boredom in the city
• Outreaching social work as spider in the web
For policies and government
• Improve mental health care and facilities• Start a addiction clinic!! ( expertise
centre)
All this could not have been possible without
• Dame Carol Kidu and Canice• Janetta Douglas from Rotary POM
Discussion
• What did you think about our visit?
• What kind of material do you need?