This year’s World Children’s Day theme - “Investing in our future means investing in our children”, is a perfect representation of her approach.
In 2011, Gagena was selected by the community leaders in Taurai village, Tinputz, North Bougainville, to take up “Nature Line” – a weeklong training run by the Autonomous Bougainville Government on using natural objects to recognise letters and sounds.
Inspired by the training, she set up a small classroom under her late brother’s house which later became an early learning centre.
