Photos from the 2017 Bougainville Reunion

Oxfam Trailwalker this weekend

Greetings all!

This weekend I will be walking the 55km to raise funds for the Brisbane Oxfam Trailwalker.  

This walk will commence at Lake Manchester and finish at Mt Coot-tha. If you would like to contribute then see the link below.  Your support is so much appreciated.  If you would like to speak with someone and I am not contactable then call Danni on 0414 808 139 and / or Tricia Riley, on 0414 710 761.

Here is the link to my teams page and you can donate easily through there by clicking on "Donate to John "

https://trailwalker.oxfam.org.au/my/team/27145

Thanks for your support!
Davo

John@johndavidson.com.au

http://johndavidsonbougainville.blogspot.com.au

0418 784 186 

Response to our circular in Feb 2017

From: Melissa Gorogo
Sent: Monday, 20 March 2017 1:51 PM
To: John Davidson
Cc: Peter Bennett; Info@johndavidson.com.au; 'Gary Fulton'; Info@johndavidson.com.au; Cassandra Whitchurch; Elton Bradley Gorogo; William Gorogo; 'Patrick Gorogo'
Subject: RE: Bougainville Circular Feb 2017

Hi Jon,

My dad was Ambrose Gorogo & mum; Mary Gorogo. Dad managed the Panguna supermarket from it’s opening to the end. None of us have returned to Bougainville yet , but I’m sure we will one day.

Dad’s entire working life was with Awara Enterprises Limited (AEL) from the supermarket in Arawa to Panguna.

I think the entire family flew out from Bougainville in May/June 1989 to Port Moresby where we have been since. I was 17, the next 16, 15 and then 10, 9 and 5 years old or thereabouts.

Mum and Dad have since passed on many years ago and my other siblings all keep in touch with their Loloho, Bovo and Panguna ex-school mates, neighbours as well as our Panguna School Principal – Peter Comerford.

That’s us in a nutshell !  

1. Elton Gorogo
2. Cassandra (Gorogo) Whitchurch
3. William Gorogo
4. Patrick Gorogo
5. Christopher Gorogo

We’d love to be added into your Circular; I’ve copied my family into this email. Our youngest Christopher has cerebral palsy and we help care for him since our parents passing. He was only a 5 when we left Bougainville.  

Thank you for the opportunity to be added and we look forward to any initiatives where we could give back to Bougainville in some form or another.

Kind regards,

Melissa M Gorogo

Human Resource Manager | Kenmore Limited

Autonomous Region of Bougainville (ARoB) Accelerated Malaria Control Project

From the desk of Ray Hughes-Odgers...

See attached a two pager on the Autonomous Region of Bougainville (ARoB) Accelerated Malaria Control Project (AMCP), for which my company, Shared Sky Pty Ltd, is Project Manager. I hold the AMCP Project Director role and we have a Bougainville based Project Manager. For clarification, the work of the ARoB AMCP is focused on initial malaria Control, which

is the essential prerequisite to a sustained commitment required to achieve Pre elimination and finally Elimination of malaria. In terms of action against diseases, elimination takes place in different parts of the world ahead of ultimate eradication. Eradication only applies on a global scale.  The only disease to have been eradicated globally is smallpox.

I am currently engaged with a major Australian university to investigate the viability of establishing a Trust Account with DGR status that could receive donations for the  entomological work on Bougainville that I have outlined in the attached two pager. DGR status provides tax deductibility for donations. This opens the potential for the ex BCL network to make individual donations.The entomological work on Bougainville (vector control, vector mapping, environmental measures and linked to GIS mapping of malaria incidence) is part of the work being undertaken by our Accelerated Malaria Control Project. Our work on Bougainville is conducted in collaboration with the Bougainville Healthy Communities Programme. We are also in dialogue with BCL about a potential contribution to toward the work of our Accelerated Malaria Control Project (AMCP) work.

Ray will be attending the picnic reunion and will be happy to speak about the Malaria Project in more detail then. 

Caving Exploration Group Bougainville

Thomas, as you may remember we had an active caving exploration group on Bougainville started and organised by Hans Meier Senior Chemist at the time.(1972 to 1986)

Hans started working on Bougainville during the exploration days and was involved in setting up the laboratories and training local employees.

Hans coached the cave group members in safe exploring these caves.

He was the main person to map these caves and has meticulously recorded these mappings.

Hans want to give his records to the autonomous Bougainville Government and it seems to be that you are in a position to pass on the maps to your Minister.

Hans and I both love the people of Bougainville and like to see an independent Bougainville.

The would be of historic and scientific interest as these caves are amongst to largest and most beautiful in the world.

Please send Hans your mail address and organise.

The attached photos have been made by Hans.

Regards,

John van der Linden

61 2 42682852

Oxfam Trailwalker Fundraiser - The Pacemakers

Greetings all!

This year we will commence our fund raising with participation in the Brisbane Oxfam Trailwalker program. This will culminate with a 60 Km walk on the 16^{th and} 17^th June. This walk will commence at Lake Manchester and finish at Mt Coot-tha. If you would like to contribute then see the link below.  Your support is so much appreciated.  If you would like to speak with someone and I am not contactable then call Danni on 0414 808 139 and / or Tricia Riley, on 0414 710 761.

Here is the link to my teams page and you can donate easily through there by clicking on "Donate to John "

https://trailwalker.oxfam.org.au/my/team/27145

Thanks for your support!
Davo

John@johndavidson.com.au

http://johndavidsonbougainville.blogspot.com.au

0418 784 186 

New years Newsletter

All, You will probably have seen, on the box and / or in the press, including in the Townsville Bulletin re the “high” adventure of Ian Smith and daughter, Carmen. Youngest daughter, Alicia has given us an update.  The headline was “Miracle field surgery gives pilot a fighting chance”, see above. Woodstock is situated about 30 minutes drive from Townsville. We are so pleased to be able to report to you that Ian is now speaking to his family and some of the tubes have been removed. In close attendance are Veronica and the girls. The other daughters are Andrea and Emily. When we were gathering our Townsville pack out crew, Ian was one of the first people we called. In Bougainville Ian was, for several years during the 80`s, a member of the Technical Services, Power Reticulation, Despatch Dept, reporting through to Paul Cusack. A big thank you to our Townsville journalist, Stan Neal. We spent the Christmas to New Years week on Norfolk island. Even at this remote outpost we find people who share with us the Bougainville heritage. I visited Alan and Polly Walpole and Ken Morgan and his family.  Alan and his father Alf were in the Pit workshop and Ken was a carpenter supervisor at Loloho. We somehow missed the passing of David Alan (Dave) Cunningham around 12 months ago. However we thank Haggis for announcing it on the Facebook page.  We send to Vera and Joy our very best regards. Dave was born in 1938.  After a stint in the UK Military including time with SAS, he became a highly skilled specialist welder, mainly based in Australia. In 1975 he built the Hornibrooks complex, in Arawa. From here he was approached by BCL. Dave worked out of Panguna for some 13 years. He completed a lot of project and maintenance works on our P & H shovels.  If required to define Dave in a word the first one that springs to mind is “gentleman”. Thanks, Haggis. Roy Goldsworthy is kindly sharing with us his library of BCL Newsletters and Concentrates magazines.  We will trickle them to you over the next 12 months.  Our first is from February of 1972 (to read, click on this link: 1972 No 2 Feb.pdf Lastly, see the picture below, sighted by one of our number (wantok@me.com), entering a garage in Broadbeach Regards Davo John@johndavidson.com.au http://johndavidsonbougainville.blogspot.com.au 0418 784 186

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