Simbu provincial authority

Helping to alleviate pain

Jean has trained more than 30 staff and students on counselling in preparation to establish Family Support Centres in all six districts of Simbu Province in 2023.

She was one of 24 Papua New Guineans who studied a Graduate Certificate in Counselling in 2020 through the Australia Awards PNG Short Course Awards.

Like other social workers and counsellors in PNG, Jean’s daily experience of gender-based violence cases is overwhelming.