Sultongo girls enterprise into fishing enterprise

Amidst the boys who ran Sultongo Cocoa Cooperative Ltd in Nuku, West Sepik Province, Priscilla Namtane with 100 plus like-minded moms selected one other enterprise to pursue – fisheries.

The motivation to take part in agri-business got here after Priscilla and three different girls attended a management coaching in Vanimo on 27 August this 12 months.

Sultongo which interprets as ‘holim graun kamapim samtin’ (toil the land to provide one thing and profit from it).

That coaching was informative for Priscilla who took benefit of it. Effectively, that coaching in Vanimo was not the one coaching Priscilla and different girls underwent, however different competent coaching carried out by the EU-STREIT staff in Nuku.

On behalf of ladies, she expressed gratitude to the EU-STREIT program for the gender and management trainings as these two trainings confirmed the significance of ladies to the family, communities and nation.

“When EU-STREIT (officers) arrived in Nuku, we obtained all of the coaching such because the management coaching with gender inclusive coaching,” mentioned Pricilla.

“This essential coaching helped us (Priscilla along with different moms) loads to proceed the (fish) venture.”

Priscilla and her staff are taking a look at increasing their girls in enterprise initiative by beginning a poultry venture.

The coaching has the attitude of the best way Priscilla and different girls in SCCL have modified considerably. The ladies with little data of fish farming due to this fact stay optimistic and (in early September) ventured into the fish venture with the assistance of the boys who dug two ponds for the fish.

The fishponds maintain two forms of fish, carp and trout purchased for K5 every (two sexes for every sort). The group, which had about 100 moms, every contributed K2 as a start-up capital to finance their fish venture. They purchased a complete of 36 fish and later their offspring introduced the entire to 86.

Priscilla, who’s the chairperson and the chief of the venture, conjures up different girls loads, though she has little data of such initiatives.

In response to Priscilla, they don’t have any coaching in fish farming, however remained optimistic and used their data to proceed supporting their venture.

Whereas the fish venture is underway, Priscilla works diligently along with her distinctive considering capacity to deliver poultry as a substitute initiative to their fish venture.

“I’m considering of beginning a brand new venture and that’s poultry venture to assist our fish venture,” mentioned Priscilla.

To start with, Priscilla and her staff purchased 100 fish (two sorts) and offered them a month in the past.

They offered 16 fish in September, every at K7 and in the present day they’re left with 36 (some are useless).

Though every little thing has its challenges, the one factor Priscilla urgently wants is the fish and poultry coaching and appears ahead to whoever has data in that subject to offer them with not less than one thing to maintain their fish venture.

The SCCL is likely one of the beneficiaries of the famend EU-STREAT PNG program within the Better Sepik area. SCCL is privileged to be one of many 750 teams within the Sepik area that largely take part within the valued coaching supplied by EU-STREIT professionals within the district.