Youth leadership

Youth leadership is thel latest course I am now attending. It is interesting because we are looking at contextual approach to youth leadership. This means blending the old and new ways and coming up with something that will be helpful to the youths today. These days we have so many changes and one of that revolutionary change is the mobile change. Mobile phones have changed the ways of our young people. They can send SMS after SMS and text their friends. Life is changing so rapidly but we still have to maintain the good traditions that we have. That is what contextualisation is all about.

Making Men's organisations work

After completing a 5,000 word essay, I found that men in Melanesia need to get together to learn some new trades. For people who are always in the office, it is good to learn about plumbing, animal husbandry, basic motor mechanic, agriculture and family planning. These are some of my suggestions. Sometimes men only watch games on TV or at the field and do nothing else. Some men want to learn basic carpentary. I learnt practical skills in High School many years ago and I only used my hammer once in a while. Some enterprising author in PNG could write about some of the suggestions made in this post so that other men may benefit. I do not know in future if PNG may come up with online technical colleges and  vocational centres. Such a move could benefit men in PNG. It may be expensive but doing a few courses online or exporting courses from overseas and rewriting them for PNG audiences. I am just thinking about what was taught in the hausman. However some of the things that young men learnt were from their parents and their peers. Nowadays our children may never know how to husk a coconut, scrape coconut and even plant some of the garden food like banana and even dig tapioks out from the ground or make rope from coconut leaves etc. Life has really changed and the society has really changed. It's up to the men folk to come up with a Melanesian version of passing knowledge to the next generation or our good cultures may be lost forever.

Why do men's organisations often fail

Somewhere in 2001, we started a men's group to unite the men from different departments and backgrounds. In those days our favourite programs were fun nights. These days it is men's retreat that are fun and exciting. At times our programs come on once in a while. Therefore I am doing a research paper why men's programs do not run well on campus. On the other hand the lady's group is so successful.
I am starting to read and will look for comments and write my findings and come up with suggested improvements. I find that in the nearby villages where I live and work, very few men attend church. There could be a connection somewhere.