About HEAL PNG

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HEAL PNG is a social movement that aims to raise awareness and promote active engagement from responsible citizens on issues of national and geopolitical importance in Papua New Guinea. 

Marshall Lagoon, PNG

HEAL PNG aims to highlight and promote  civic engagement on pertinent issues in  Papua New Guinea. Our flagship cause is the fight against logging cartels destroying rainforests and indigenous lives in Papua New Guinea. 

HEAL PNG is an acronym that stands for Health, Education, Access and Livelihood in Papua New Guinea. HEAL PNG emphasises these four areas for development and strengthening, recognising that:

• Health and Education are intrinsically linked and are measures of human development.
• Improving Access to functioning and connected infrastructure, services and systems help to build a strong, dynamic and competitive nation.
• Every individual deserves the opportunity to improve their quality of life through meaningful Livelihood pathways.

Health, Education, Access and Livelihood Creation are crucial pillars that require a corrective systemic address by the government and development partners to release the full measure of our peoples’ potential.  It is our mission to drive a national conversation beginning with these four pillars to inspire our people to demand better from their government and those who represent them.

After 46 years as an independent nation state, Papua New Guinea is transitioning between its analogue colonial past and the present-day digital age. We acknowledge God in giving us a home and a nation of abundance and promise. We honour those who have gone before us and their vision as ascribed in the preamble of Papua New Guinea’s Constitution: 

“We see the darkness of neon lights. We see the despair and loneliness in the urban cities. We see the alienation of the people that is the result of the present machine-oriented economy.

We see true social security and the people’s happiness being diminished in the name of economic progress.

We caution therefore that large-scale industries should be pursued only after very careful and thorough consideration of the likely consequences upon the social and spiritual fabric of our people.

There is overwhelming evidence to suggest that a significant number of people who live by the fruits of multi-million dollar multi-national corporations live in misery, loneliness and spiritual poverty.

We believe that since we are a rural people, our strength should be essentially in the land and the use of our innate artistic talents.”

Papua New Guinea’s Constitutional Planning Committee, 1975