As the holidays approach, we’re reminded of the warmth and generosity that make this time of year so special. It’s a season that calls on us to give back, to spread kindness, and to connect with our loved ones. This year, we invite you to make your giving truly impactful. By donating to FemiliPNG Australia, you can help us support critical services for survivors of family and sexual violence in Papua New Guinea – ensuring they have access to the resources, safety, and support they need to rebuild their lives.
Send a Christmas E-Card
This Christmas, make your gift truly meaningful by donating on behalf of someone you love. A donation made in their honour represents a powerful commitment to supporting essential services for survivors of family and sexual violence in Papua New Guinea.
You have the option to send a personalised e-card to your loved one when you make your donation. The card will let them know their gift is creating lasting change, and helping to create a brighter future for survivors in PNG.
The Gift that Keeps Giving
At FemiliPNG Australia, we believe that every woman deserves to live a life free from violence, with access to the support she needs to rebuild and heal. No one should be denied the chance to seek safety, medical care, or justice. With your help, we can support Femili PNG’s work to make this a reality for thousands of survivors in Papua New Guinea.
Through their case management centres in Lae, Port Moresby, and Goroka, Femili PNG offers essential services for those affected by family and sexual violence. Since opening in 2014, they have supported over 7,000 survivors to access medical care, legal assistance, counselling, vocational assistance, safe accommodation, and more. Behind the scenes, our team at FemiliPNG Australia offers crucial technical expertise and additional funding, that supports Femili PNG to extend its reach and impact where it’s needed most.
As a free support service, Femili PNG relies on the kindness and generosity of people like you to keep these vital programs running and accessible for all survivors. One of the most impactful ways you can help is through regular giving. Monthly contributions provide FemiliPNG Australia with a reliable income stream, allowing us to consistently back Femili PNG’s work.
This Christmas, consider joining our community of regular givers and providing a gift that truly keeps giving. Your ongoing support ensures that Femili PNG’s services remain accessible to those who need them most.
Where Does Your Donation Go?
Your donation to FemiliPNG Australia will go towards activities that help us support Femili PNG to:
Assist survivors of family and sexual violence to access safe accommodation.
Under the Bel isi PNG Initiative, Femili PNG operates a safe house in Port Moresby. This provides survivors with a safe place to stay when escaping violence. It is equipped with 8 bedrooms, a kitchen, a laundry, an outdoor living space, and an accessible bathroom for people living with disability. In 2023-24, Femili PNG supported 123 clients and their dependents with safe accommodation at the Bel isi PNG Safe House.
Femili PNG also works in close collaboration with other service providers to link survivors with safe houses across Papua New Guinea. This is an important part of supporting survivors in hard-to-reach locations. Throughout 2023-24, a total of 601 people were assisted to find safe accommodation.
Link survivors of violence with law and justice interventions.
Femili PNG’s clients often need assistance lodging interim protection orders (IPOs) in court. These IPOs serve as a legal warning, and put conditions in place to prevent further violence. Importantly, however, survivors are not required to separate from their partner/family unless they choose to. This allows the IPO not only to increase the survivor’s safety, but also to maintain their autonomy.
After obtaining an IPO, clients can obtain a protection order, which allows the conditions of the original IPO to be put in place for up to 2 years. In 2023-24, Femili PNG helped 237 survivors of violence to secure IPOs, and 114 to secure protection orders.
Support survivors with repatriations, relocations and reintegrations.
Survivors are often isolated from their families and communities while experiencing violence. Femili PNG provides assistance with repatriations, which involve helping survivors to find and return to their family.
Femili PNG also supports clients with relocations, which involve assisting clients to move to another location to escape violence; and reintegrations, which involve helping survivors to safely return to the community they experienced violence in.
In 2023-24, 109 clients were repatriated, relocated or reintegrated into their communities.
These cases are some of the most complex Femili PNG’s staff deal with, involving family tracing, coordination with partners, negotiation with local communities, and the provision of resources to help the client start a new life.
Provide survivors with business start-up kits.
Escaping violence is often the first of many challenges a survivor will face. Often, after years of abuse, survivors have become isolated and need support achieving their long-term goals.
Case workers encourage survivors to talk about what a different future, free from violence, might look like for them. Many survivors express a desire to become self-reliant and to generate an income. This has led to some of Femili PNG’s clients starting small businesses, such as selling products at a road side stall.
Case workers can help clients apply for an injection of funds from Femili PNG’s ‘Business Start Up Kit’. This provides them with the resources needed to build a strong and sustainable future for themselves. In 2023-24, 49 business start-up kits were issued to survivors.
Train community leaders and service providers to support survivors.
Providing support directly to survivors is just one aspect of Femili PNG’s vital work. They also train community leaders to recognise the signs and impacts of family and sexual violence, educate them about relevant legislation, and teach them how to support survivors in their own communities. This is essential to increasing survivors’ access to high quality services, especially in locations far away from Femili PNG’s main case management centres.
Deliver awareness raising sessions to adults and children across Papua New Guinea.
Femili PNG conducts outreach in communities and schools to raise awareness about the impacts of family and sexual violence. Through these initiatives, they educate community members about relevant laws, available support services, and practical ways to seek help. This approach not only empowers individuals with vital information but also fosters an informed, supportive community where survivors can feel understood and protected.