We met up with trekkers today and I have to say they will go down in history as one of the happiest bunch of trekkers I have ever seen come off the track.

The boys were happy, trekkers were happy and lots of nice positive stories where being shared around.

One of our porters scored a bicycle and you cannot wipe the grin off his face.

The boys…[Read more]

Trekkers have now reached Ofi Creek and tomorrow will head off to Agulogo. According to Clement, everyone is doing just great, no problems whatsoever. Tomorrow they have the big climb up Maguli Range to look forward to.Climbing up from Ofi Creek.jpg

Congratulations are in order for these trekkers as they walked off the track today into Kokoda and are presently relaxing at Orohaven Kokoda Retreat.

Tomorrow afternoon they will fly back into Port Moresby. Well done guys!

Picture them today as they would have made their way to our base in Kokoda at Orohaven.Trek 622 Orohaven Kokoda Retreat…[Read more]

Trekkers are now at Goldie River and will walk off the track tomorrow morning so another early start for us as we head again up to Owers' Corner. Standby by photographs to be posted tomorrow.Goldie River Trek 715.jpg

Clement called me around 3pm to say they had reached their destination for today being Ua'Ule Creek. The girls slugged it out a bit harder today and its seems Travis is a natural at this stage of their trek. Tomorrow he has decided to give them a short day to Ofi Creek.

On this trek we have our builder/tiler/handyman by the name of Willie…[Read more]

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The guide for this trek is Clement Harika from Saga Village in Kokoda. Clement loves to walk the track with trekkers, has a good knowledge of the history and is a likeable guy. I am sure the group will enjoy their trek with the KTL boys chosen to walk along with them.IMGP1828 1280×768.JPG

A group photograph was taken and Clement Harika their guide informed them of what the expectations would be for today – showed them where they would be heading. Other staff were introduced to them and it was soon time to move off and head down to Goldie River.IMGP1821 1280×768.JPGIMGP1823 1280×768.JPGIMGP1825 1280×768.JPGIMGP1826…[Read more]

Some other photographs taken this morning at Owers' Corner:IMGP1818 1280×768.JPGIMGP1820 1280×768.JPG

At Owers' Corner the girls got to meet their personal porters, Eddie Idau and Ivan Semie.IMGP1813 1280×768.JPGIMGP1815 1280×768.JPG

Trekkers seen here in the back of the troopy on the way to Owers' Corner:IMGP1806 1280×768.JPG

On the way, we stopped at McDonald's Corner. We asked if they would like to get out and to which they replied straight away, yes.

So here they are standing next to the statue called 'Fred' paying their respects to the 39th.

I often think when I am at this spot about Bob McDonald (PJ's son) as we got to know him quite well and were sorry to hear…[Read more]

Trekkers have now reached Isurava Village where they are spending their last night on the track. Tomorrow they should reach their destination of Kokoda before midday and will head down to our base, Orohaven Kokoda Retreat.Waterfall near Isurava.jpg

Trekkers have now reached Ua'Ule Creek and seems they are undecided whether to have another night on the track or to walk off tomorrow 1 day ahead of their schedule. They are going to phone me between 6-7am tomorrow after they have reached their final decision.Naoro Village.JPGIoriawba Ridge 640×480.JPG

Wayne called in around 7am this morning to say they were just preparing to head off onto the track. I spoke to Debbie and she informed me they were having a great time and enjoying every day! Apparently there are a couple of trekking companies all heading for the finish line on Tuesday! Today the group are on their way to Ioribaiwa. It will…[Read more]

Trekkers were destined for Eora Creek today but decided to stop at Templeton's Crossing for the night. All is ok just that it will make it a longer day on the 24th when they walk off the track. Lots of mud today according to Brendan Buka when he called in this afternoon.SDC10797 640×480.JPG

Their Valued Corporate Partners

PNG Corporate Partners – financial

The following PNG – based corporate partners make vital financial contributions to their programs. This funding supports their wide variety of education, health, community development and microbusiness projects that they now deliver across 40 communities throughout the Kokoda…[Read more]

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[*]Preparations are under way to build the Kokoda College – a state-of-the-art training institute that will train enough elementary and primary teachers and community health workers for the entire Kokoda Track region in its first 3…[Read more]

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[*]Implemented Pawa Givim Meri in eleven villages along the Kokoda Track, working with women’s groups to empower them and enable them to earn an income. We run small business workshops, cooking classes and literacy classes with the women’s groups and all are…[Read more]

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[*]Their Achievements in Community Development / Agriculture

[*]Built the Milton Lay Community Hall in Koko village – a unique facility that is now being used to deliver elementary teacher training; operate the Kou Kou pre-*‐school; run microbusiness training; and deliver 1st aid and HIV peer…[Read more]