2016 seems a blur with all the travel back and forth. We remember starting 2016 off with the struggle of trying to address some literacy and education issues during the [tooltip text=”Papua New Guinea”]PNG[/tooltip] Christmas period—December to February. Continue reading Reflections on 2016
The Vernacular Path to English (VPE) Course (August 5-19) is a joint venture between SIL and the National Department of Education. VPE is designed to help rural children bridge from education in their home languages to English the National language of Papua New Guinea. Continue reading The Vernacular Path to English
The first half of 2014 has sped by in a blur. By mid January, Gertrude was at Ukarumpa helping colleagues with a Vernacular to English trial workshop. This course will be repeated later in the year lecturers of teachers’ colleges… Continue reading Literacy News
For the longest time Gertrude has been training to a number of ladies in the village to teach an adult literacy class. At long last they started a class the every Wednesday morning as part of the Ladies fellowship weekly meeting Continue reading Adult Literacy Class
One of the Highlights of the year for us is the time we work at NITI. I am working the Notsi on translating the Gospel of Matthew. We are very pleased with the progress that we are making. Continue reading NITI (New Ireland Translation Institute)
In March I developed an allergy that developed into asthma. Dr. Jeff recommended, “Don’t go back to Lossu village until the bat problem is resolved… Continue reading Gertrude’s Ministry at Kung Island
February Gertrude lead another Literacy course for the three language groups, the Notsi, and two other languages close by, Nalik … Continue reading Gertrude’s Literacy Class
In January this year we attended the National Scripture Use Conference in Ukarumpa. One of the results of this conference … Continue reading Scripture Use Conference
An important date is coming up. August 15, 2010, will be the celebration of the completion of the Sursurunga New … Continue reading Literacy Workshop at NITI
On July 12, we were on our way to Sohun for the next NITI course. Gertrude is no busy leading … Continue reading Literacy Class
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