Visitor praises local NGO group

A VISITING electrical engineer from the United States has described the ATprojects at Nagamiza village in Goroka, Eastern Highlands, as “experts in community development work”.
He said ATprojects were experts in community development because it had done real research, and even questioned common knowledge that other organisations or agencies said were true and carried out in local villages
 and communities.
“I appreciate the fact that ATprojects is doing this, to see whether the systems and methodologies that ATprojects have created are actually working,” he
 said.
He said the primary goal of the institute was language translation so they studied minority languages in the country and taught people how to read and write in their own
languages.
 “We are a multinational group but we are doing a lot of national training and have courses for Papua New Guineans to do these themselves,” he said.
He said as an electrical engineer his interest lay in solar technologies and how to improve people’s lifestyles in the villages.
“My aim is only on solar but others in my organisation may be interested in other aspects of development projects that ATprojects promotes and delivers like water and sanitation,” he said.