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Enga gets ECD Training

The National Executive Council recently approved PNG’s Early Childhood Education Policy (ECD) 2020 for implementation. 

Enga Governor, Sir Peter Ipatas requested the ECD training for a first cohort of teachers. 

BbP launches new website for teachers

The website content was first tested on BbP’s 42 Teacher-librarians from the organisations’ Library Learning Centres across the country during a Digital Teacher Training, which took place in December 2020. 

The digital training program and associated website has been developed in partnership with Deloitte and Deloitte Digital and is valued at more than AUD $100,000. 

BbP signs new partnership agreement

Yasmine Chatila Zwahlen - Ambassador to Papua New Guinea, and Special Envoy of Switzerland for the Pacific Region signed the new agreement with BbP Founder Anne-Sophie Hermann in Canberra recently.

The new agreement will be to a support Swiss Foundation NGO based in EHP, with capacity development training for their school-teachers. 

The training will be in BbP’s highly efficient Early Childhood Development program and School Library management.

Buk Bilong Pikinini helps Kenneth to read

His mother waits for him to attend his class daily from 10am to 12pm before she takes him home.
Anna (Kenneth’s mother) says in his early days at home, “em no save kolim ol words gud tasol em save harim tok na biket sampela taim, nau em save toktok gud na spik inglis broken wan (he does not pronounce words clearly, he listens but sometimes disobeys us. Now, he pronounces words clearly in Pidgin and speaks Pidgin English).”