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- Papua New Guinea Impact -

Every Child Deserves Resources For Good Health

HOPE worldwide is committed to being a passionate force for good in the world. Where poverty produces suffering and despair, HOPE worldwide inspires greater hope with compassion and tangible resources for our neighbors in need. Today we are raising funds, and we hope you can help fuel our global impact.

With this in mind, we’d like to share a story of impact from one of our HOPEww Country Directors, Priscilla Sine Mal, detailing how donations have helped save many lives in the remote villages of Papua New Guinea. 

Last year, HOPE worldwide delivered a shipment to Papua New Guinea containing more than 332,000 units of essential medicines and medical supplies to our HOPE worldwide clinics located in both Port Moresby and some of the more rural areas across the highlands. These shipments provided lifesaving treatment and medicine for 97,400 patients. 

Additionally, the local government reported that the rates of waterborne illnesses were increasing in remote villages, and even resulted in several deaths. Fortunately, Priscilla was familiar with how HOPE worldwide had used water filters to purify contaminated water in disaster areas, and she realized that these filters could be the solution.

Because thoughtful donors like you stepped up, HOPE worldwide was able to purchase and deploy the new filters. Traveling by canoe for many days, with delays from stormy weather, HOPE worldwide staff delivered the water filters to over 300 families and trained the villagers on how to use and maintain them. Some of the villagers said it was the first time in their lives they had seen clear drinking water.

Watch the video below:

A Passionate Force For Good

11 months after the delivery, cases of waterborne illnesses in those villages were reduced by over 99%, dropping from over 700 cases down to only 3. Seeing the profound impact on the village’s health, the provincial government of Papua New Guinea is now partnering with HOPE worldwide to make water filters even more accessible to other rural parts of the country.

The regional Governor for East Sepik province stated that “these filters SOLVE the problem of clean water availability for the province.”

Our work in Papua New Guinea is just one example of the many ways that you are providing transformative, lifesaving resources in over 60 countries.

Please donate to our Global Needs Fund today. Your support will help HOPEww deliver impact like this to vulnerable communities around the world.