Dei people push for self-reliance

By KEVIN TEME
LAWLESSNESS and lack of services are a norm to Dei, a district in Mul Baiyer-Lumusa, Western Highlands.
Despite the hardship, people fend from themselves in the daily chores by selling produce they harvest from their respective gardens and selling it at the near buy market.
It sometimes take hours for the mothers, fathers and young ones who do not have formal education or employment to help carry with the load of kaukau, cabbage, or green bags for that matter to walk to a nearest bus stop or market to sell their produce.
Recently in Port Moresby, the Dei people met at 9-Mile to discuss issues affecting their people.
Peter Pim, one of the only few Dei people who is well-educated, has assisted the people in his home district.
Graduating with a master of project management degree at the University of Queensland in Australia, Pim after resigning from Department of Planning, went out of his way to fund simple projects.