PNG Church concerned over aid dependency

Friday, April 4th, 2014

There’s a growing concern within the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Papua New Guinea that Australian aid is creating a culture of dependency, if the money ends up in the right place at all.

Reuben Mete, who’s Director of the Youth Desk for the church is calling for the aid programme to be resigned.

He says that obtaining funds is difficult, and those running the programmes in PNG want to exercise too much control. Listen to interview

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