Organisation feeding homeless in Port Moresby
MANY homeless people living around the Boroko and Waigani in Port Moresby could not contain their joy when they were fed by a community-oriented organisation recently.
The Guardian Angels Givim Foundation (GAGF), a recently formed not-for-profit charity organisation, organised food, including scones, chicken soup and water to the homeless – many of whom are orphans or neglected children and the elderly.
Led by chairman Walter Korukanjin, members and their families began the feeding programme at 3am at the Boroko business area, all the way to Waigani where they finished at dawn.
Nelson Midave, a foundation member said: “The homeless feeding programme, a first for the Guardian Angels Givim Foundation, was a success as we got to feed 40 street dwellers.
“Our spouses have openly shed tears for them when they saw their state of living, especially sleeping on cardboards with rugged clothing and feeding on anything they can find.
“However, in most cases, they just went hungry.
“They are people just like you and me. And we can’t turn a blind eye to them.
“As caring Papua New Guineans, we have formed this foundation to help such people in need.”
Midave said the foundation would also look at providing clothing and blankets for the homeless.
“Not only do these people need food to keep them going, but they also need to keep warm during the night, so I will flag it to the foundation if in our next visit, we could provide them with something to stay warm at night,” he said.
Midave also appealed to other charity groups and
NGOs in the city to help the homeless.
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Thanks to the GAGF to going out of your way to assist these so called “homeless people”. You have a big heart in realising the need these people have to help them out where you can with the resources available to you.
I’d like to also remind ourselves and those so called “homeless people” that in a country like PNG that is blessed with everything from land with anything that grows on it for us to make a living from, there should be no “homeless people” – only lazy people who live in urban centres and don’t know where they come from tend to promote this negative idea that PNG has “homeless people”.
Whilst organisations like GAGF are doing good in upholding humanity we also have to be mindful of indirectly encouraging more people to become homeless (when basic human needs like food and clothing is provided hordes of people will become lazy and rely on these organisations) especially in the urban centres.
We are a country with everything on the land (and the land is owned by people) so we should not have people becoming beggars being called “homeless people” to promote laziness and to act as if they do not have land back at home.
Thanks Dirty. If I decide to become homeless for a week, will I be fed? How do I qualify to become a homeless person in PNG? If I’m called a homeless person, does that mean I don’t have a second home called a village? I think we need ask these people how they became homeless.
Not long and you’ll see a lot homeless people on the street. While this is a very good initiative, it only encourage more people to be dependent on such organization thus making them lazy. We are Papua New Guineans and we have villages, tribes and culture. People survive back at home by cultivating the land.
Why not homeless people living around towns and cities return to their places or villages? we all are Papua New Guineans, and 90% of our land are controlled by our self. while independent people live in communities still live in poverty and have their own shelter, how about those homeless people in living in the streets. Thanks for the GAGF organisation for concern to the homeless people but send them back to their villages. No man is an Island.
Good job Guardian Angels Givim Foundation (GAGF).
Please, for goodness sake, this bunch of homeless, what just happen to their home province rather than they seek basic necessities of life.
Just sent the back to their home province, GAGF.
Waste of time buying food and feeding them.
Don’t give him free handouts but learn him how to work and earn. Seems to be a very young active person. You’re just adding fuel to the fire.
Home-cooked meals can be gestures of love, evoking warmth and comfort. This is exactly what GAGF sets out to achieve when cooking for homeless people on the streets of POM. Food can bring back good memories. It brings you back to a place where life wasn’t as tough as it is now. GAGF are doing good work out there upholding humanity but we also have to be mindful that free life is back home where you originated from. Our lands are there ready for cultivating.
GAGF is doing good for those regarded as homeless, however, I believe those homeless are not the ones with good mental health, they are sick in their heads so are seen on streets. Therefore, such people can be gathered in a care centre until such time they seem fit to be on the streets again rather than feeding/clothing them and letting them go. If it’s done that way, you will be able see that no one will be seen on streets, and may be newly originated or what we call ‘latest longlong’ only will be seen so it will be so easy to identify and continue having them into the ‘home of homeless’ or the care centre. Just a suggestion only.
Give a man fish and he will come back …teach him to catch fish and he will eat fish for the rest of his life…well known Chinese proverb
GAGF has started off something good to help these homeless, but however find a long term solution, you feed him only, was happy for 5 minutes solution,but the problem is still there, find a long term strategy where he leaves where he is now, for a better living , another step forward……
It’s good to be charitable and help the poor and needy and feed the hungry. Those are biblical and Christian values that are being practised and those behind the project should be praised. But there are always two sides to a story. One is charity as it takes place. The other is that it can’t be permanent charity. You can’t feed the poor on a daily basis. There should be no homeless people in PNG. Our traditional social system is better that most state funded welfare systems in the world. If you have no home and land you can still stay with a family member. Those who roam the cities doing nothing Nd sleeping on the roads should consider going back home where everything is free. Try to live life with some dignity. How on earth to people go to to cities and live on roads while people back home in even the most rural of places have a basic roof over their head and don’t Starve or thirst to death?
GAGF you are not doing any good at all. You are not fixing the problem. Do not think that I support you one bit. Why don’t you take all these homeless people home and keep on feeding them. EmTV, National and Post Courier, please do not bother to cover this crap. Wasting your time and ink. GAGF stop finding ways to make money. Don’t pretend to be a God loving person. Christians don’t tell openly or show public what good they do to others. A hypocrite! The best way please read Angrawagl comment and you will understand well how to deal with such people and situation. Shame on you, GAGF……………..!?
Well said uncle. GAGF should keep your charity work secret so God, who sees what you do in private will bless and reward you openly.
get in depth by finding out why people are homeless. then we shall solve a problem by implementing interventions. if root causes are not solve, expect more homeless people every year.
Promoting corruption here. Nothing is free. Why should give to lazy able people. I would be happy reading people feeding disable or sick people and not lazy or homeless stupid!
Disgrace, let us not pretend to be good to source support or funding to promote a cause that we know that will only encourage more Papua New Guineans to be lazy and roaming the town and cities of our country.
GAGF, improve on just feeding homeless and take more realistic approach on how to take this homeless people off the streets.
To feed someone daily em cost yah; invite such people to your centre (if you have one), know their story, provide them counselling, advice or train them on basic skills requirements to make their own living.
Em Papua New Guinea yah, let us not entertain lazy family members, extended relatives, friends or other citizens but encourage them to earn things from their own sweat.
Just because most of you on this thread have a roof over your heads, money in your pockets and food in your bellies doesn’t mean you should look down on other people. No matter what their circumstances, everyone has a story to tell and should not be judged upon sight. Sometimes we have to put ourselves in their shoes and imagine what it would feel like to be in their situation. Its easy to sit back and pass judgement on these individuals without even getting to firstly understand how they ended up like that.
Thank you GAGF for a good initiative. Each homeless has a story that need to be heard. How they ended up in Port Moresby?
Are they neglected by their own families?
How can we help them to repatriate them back to their home province?
How many are unemployed? How do they survive in Port Moresby.? Are they stealing to survive in Port Moresby?
This are information that GAGF should obtain in their next activity and have it documented and submit to Department of Community Development. All this information data can surely help our government to find a long term solution.
homelessness is directly related to laziness. A man who sleeps during the harvest will soon go hungry.
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