Since 2017 PiCCA has been privileged to partner with the amazing women of the Hako Women’s Collective (HWC) in Bougainville. Together we have helped deliver substantial projects that have enhanced food security, family livelihoods, community building and women’s safety, participation and empowerment in the region of Haku on Buka.
Marilyn Havini is one of the […]
PiCCA initiates Operations Training Project with Hako Women’s Collective (HWC).
Cathy, Micehelene, Gene, Serah, Geia, Marina and Nellie from HWC’s Program and Library Teams travelled into Buka town to access an internet connection and connect with PiCCA treasurer, Stephanie Boldeman to engage with this new training program.
This session, an introduction to financial management, is one in a nearly […]
Students from Huong Chu 1 school in Huong Tra learning all about sanitation, hygiene and disease prevention as part of PiCCA’s joint project with Hearts for Hue.
New wash stations were installed in this school and 19 others late last year. The training will cover all the schools involved before the end of June […]
Our joint project work in Vietnam with Hearts for Hue in 2021.
So good to see this new market building for fresh produce in the village of Hanpan, Bougainville.
Back in 2019 over 90 people from this and five other villages across the Hako region participated in an agricultural training project jointly delivered by PiCCA and the Hako Women’s Collective, and significantly funded through Australian Aid Friendship Grants. […]
In spite of October storms construction of wash stations in Phu Vang schools has been completed.Together with the schools in Huong Tra, there are now 20 schools in the region with brand new hygienic wash stations.
Our partners Hearts for Hue report the practical benefit of this work in helping to stem the spread of Covid […]
Carina Aloni is a long-term member and supporter of PICCA, passionate about helping to build better health, education, food security and a range of other opportunities in less advantaged communities. Carina is also a Yoga teacher who guides people along the pathway of Okido style Yoga.
On 23 October 2021, she brought these two parts of […]
Huong Tra’s students will return from school holidays to new hygienic wash stations. There has been rapid progress in our partnership project with Hearts for Hue and the new wash stations have already been constructed in all the 10 schools involved in the project.
With the start of the new school term, the focus of the […]
Clean water is as precious as life itself. Given PiCCA’s 2020 and 2021 projects are about water, sanitation and hygiene (or ‘WASH’), we have been thinking about the value of PiCCA’s investments to deliver benefits across all of PiCCA’s priority areas (see ‘About PiCCA’). For example, a toilet saves lives, preventing the spread of disease. It is also a […]
PiCCA has started a new project in partnership with Hearts for Hue, Vietnam.
The project involves the construction of 10 new hand washing stations in 10 Primary Schools in Huong Tra town. Train-the-trainer programs in hygiene and sanitation will also be delivered to teachers and other community leaders and training in practical hygiene matters subsequently rolled […]
