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OUR COMMUNITIES
Our infrastructure and community strategies for Tatau Islanders in particular, provides all of us with a wonderful opportunity to create a huge difference in the lives of our partners and their communities.
Our first priority is to supply Solar Power to every village on Tatau Island which will create energy centres where communities will have access to modern conveniences such as lighting, refrigeration and air conditioning in school classrooms.
With our community areas being around 13 kilometres from north to south and 7 kilometres from east to west, and mainly consisting of mountainous terrain and thick tropical vegetation, it is imperative that we open up community access roads as quickly as possible. This will also enable us to establish new schools at strategic points on the island, together with a ring road and buses carrying children to and from their schools.
Our community re-vegitation and agriculture co-operative will train and employ local islanders in a variety of careers including water management, environment, farming, aquaculture and marketing. It is envisaged that agricultural crops will be sold to nearby islands and thereby create a new market hub in the region.
A fully equipped Hospital is to be built on the south east coast with a view to servicing all of Tatau Island and also a number of nearby islands. Aligned with a major Australian hospital and with Australian doctors and nurses training and working with local medical practitioners, it will provide much needed general and emergency care for thousands of people.
After our intial roll out of solar power across the island, a major solar energy and communications network will also be established to create a green power grid which will effectively offer reliable and safe electricity to every man, woman and child.
We believe this solar system will be a showcase energy and communications network which will be adopted across Papua New Guinea and eventually other remote areas elsewhere in the world.
We also plan to introduce professional banking outlets across the island, together with security services, medical transportation, improved housing, and large scale water storages with back up water filtration systems.
Most importantly, our landowners and the communities in which we work are our genuine partners. All aspects of infrastructure, community programmes and indeed mining in general, are planned and implemented as a 'team', whereby every person in our communities is aware of our plans moving forward, and what it means to their lives on a daily basis and in the years ahead.
