Veronica Tamar Simogun is currently the Director of the Family for Change Association based in Wewak, East Sepik Province.
She worked with the Department of Civil Aviation for six years before moving back to her home village Urip, in the Boykin/Dagua area of Wewak in 1986, to assist her church and community in the promotion of safe and healthy living.
Ms. Simogun has been working to help women affected by violence ever since, funding much of this work herself. She continues to run the Family for Change Association which she founded in 2012.
The 2017 awardees are:
