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?