Maliyali request, Aug 13, 2014 I assisted Susan and my daughter Mikayla as they gave over 200 vaccinations to help curb a sudden outbreak of measles in our village, so I was tired. The sun had dropped beyond the Lagaip River gorge and I was walking toward my front...

Have you ever wondered where people came from? Have you ever wondered how your distant relatives got to America? Have you ever wondered where different nationalities and language groups came from? Well, here is a story that will help clear it all up for you. This is a...

The way the Hewans view things is much different from the way we understand things to be. They only know of the way of life that has been passed down to them from generation to generation. They have no way to figure out the truth unless someone brings them the Good...

One of my partners and myself just got back from a four day hike further up into the mountains to visit another one of the Hewa tribal villages that we have not seen yet. It was a very difficult hike and we are very glad to be back home with our families again and in...

Sitting in the darkness of the smoke filled tribal hut, I shifted positions, trying to get more comfortable on the woven bamboo floor.  The only light in the jungle hut was from the smoldering fire in the center of the floor, but even that light was suppressed by a...

Fato-June 2012 (Fato is a local leader and his house/hut is next to my house here) 01:06 Long ago at the time when my grandparents and father lived they used to say, “Evil spirits are alive and living all around us.” That’s what they said and because of that at that...

By Jonathan Kopf December 2012 I followed my newly-married friend Feyo up a steep moss covered bank in the Central range of PNG, sweat dripping from my chin to my drenched shirt. I was so weary from the 10 hour hike from the Hewa village I had moved to, that I could...

Ereke died October, 2013 When we first saw Ereke he was painfully shy, peeking out from behind his father’s knee. At that time he was four years old, maybe five. His mother had died when he was an infant leaving him to be cared for by his grieving father and one older...