The road now travelled. February 2011progress update on the work by Youth Interactive & Media4Good. Visit: www.facebook.com/youthinteractive

1. Building a school in Papua New Guinea The road now travelled Update for February 2011

2. In the highlands of Papua New Guinea a tribal village called Kondipi have waited 18 years for a school!

3. Click the image to watch the story

4. Kacey Klonsky with the children in Papua New Guinea The video you just watched was produced by Media4Good & one of our volunteers Kacey Klonsky. Media4Good create cool bits for NGOs!

5. What we’ve achieved together so far Breakthrough # 1 - Permission granted by Papua New Guinea Government for Youth Interactive School. This flagship school for the Kondipi community will be the first in Papua New Guinea to provide computer skill sets to children grade 1-6 and will benefit 600 children who currently do not have a school in their village. Breakthrough # 2 - The Papua New Guinea government agreed to provide 11 teachers, books, educational material and all ongoing maintenance costs - starting Feb 2011. Breakthrough # 3 - We also have government approval for electricity to be provided to the school and the Kondipi village as a whole. This is a landmark, it will positively change the lives of 4,000 + children and families by bringing electricity to their homes and the tribes villages. The realization of a lifetime dream for this community for the first time ever. Breakthrough # 4 - Over a hundred supporters joined our Facebook page, 96 joined us on Causes and on Causes alone we’ve raised $425. Every little really does count!

6. And now the next breakthrough (as simple as it sounds)is a road!

7. “The Kondipi Community in anticipation of the Kondipi Primary School development, the Kondipi community volunteer efforts have been so enormous. The Community have smoothen up the access road to Kondipi Village and all the way to Alkena Station (which remember is where we got stuck during one of the nights trips we made looking for the generator). They have further carried gravel in their bilums from Kaguel River and graveled the access road and its in a much better condition than the time we drove. Further, they have built one new bush material classroom, completed the double classroom, and are constructing one teacher's bush hut, and rest bush materials are collected built another teacher's house and a classroom.” News emailed from John Senior – our partner on the ground at Kondipi

8. The Kondipi communities have laboured again to smoothen up access to the road in preparation for the construction of Kondipi Primary School. Electricity grid lines to run along to power up Kondipi Elementary School and villages. A much improved road from the last year 2010 trip to Kondipi.

9. Further down Kondipi villages to Alkena Station. The gravels are carried from Kaguel Riverin the string bags and patched them on the drive way. Only using manual labour. The road right at Kondipi Village and along the Kondipi Primary School.

10. Pictures of progress Storytelling with pictures and believing in transparency.

11. A new teacher’s bush hut is under construction at Kondipi school grounds. The gum tree we have planted at Kondipi school grounds in our project partnership has grown along with the project.

12. A new blind is weaved for another bush material classroom at Kondipi school grounds. A new bush classroom is built for the Kondipi Elementary school for school year 2011. Three teachers have been allocated and eighty students have enrolled for the first school year!

13. We’ll be keeping you updated. Visit our Flickr page to see more photos from Papua New Guinea and of our other projects including Jamaica and India. A HUGE thank you to all who have supported the project so far! Photo by professional photographer Jane Klonsky

14. If you haven’t already.. please show some love ;) , support the cause, donate if you wish and get involved www.facebook.com/youthinteractive

15. This simple update was lovingly created by a volunteer on Saturday 26th February 2011. It took 65 minutes, one cup of tea and a cookie but the reward is priceless. Jane Klonsky giving photography lessons in the Youth Interactive Jamaica school Stefania Zaccari, Event Planner Mika Skromak, Graphic Designer Interested in becoming part of our tribe? Contact ng@media4good.org