Monday, July 2, 2012

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.

No comments:

Post a Comment