Community Meetings

Philip and Jacob recently facilitated community meetings in four of the five language groups using a 'Participatory Method', designed to help groups identify needs or goals and come up with their own solutions. This group represented the Mlap language.

The Mlap, Mekwei and Gresi groups mapped out a problem together using a tree. The roots represent the causes, the leaves their solutions and the fruit their desired outcomes.

The Kemtuik group discussed the eight key conditions that need to be met in order for a community to fully benefit from a translation.

Participatory Workshop: Talking about Talking

Phil had a Papuan team come to the Nimboran area to lead a community discussion on language use. They talked about things like When do we use Indonesian, and when do we use Nimboran? How do we feel about the way we use the two languages? It is important to establish these sorts of things so we can work out the best approaches to use, and for which age groups--written translation, oral storying, recordings, visual media, dual-language material..