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Mission and objectives
Morobe Development Foundation Inc. aims to help young people reach their full potential, utilize these talents in the wider community, and become role models for other young people. MDF was established to address a broader and more diverse range of objectives. MDF work through the use of dance, music and drama, MDF’s primary aim is to ensure that women participate equally in decision making in any project undertaken, including projects related to Ending Violence against Women, and promoting human rights. The organization has 16 employees, of which 7 are female and 9 male. The employees are responsible for the coordination of the various projects but also some for the performance and teaching of the music, drama and dance. MDF members are primarily unemployed youths located in Lae City, Morobe Province. The majority of the members belong to the Kalvary Lutheran Church, which is a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Papua New Guinea (ELC-PNG). MDF uses the talents of its members to address the many issues affecting the communities in the Morobe Province, with a particular focus on the settlements in and around Lae City. Through active participation, members of MDF have subsequently become role models within their community; they promote involvement with MDF as an alternative to being involved in criminal activities. MDF has been actively involved in raising awareness, promoting education, conducting workshops and theatre training on a variety of health, gender, and social issues. The workshops and projects have been supported by the Morobe Provincial Aids Council and the Papua New Guinea Electoral Commission (PNGEC). With the support of the PNGEC and AusAid, MDF successfully carried out awareness on Good Governance in 2000, 2011, and the Local Level Government Election in 2013. Morobe Development Foundation Inc has recently diversified its Objective to support Community Development Projects
Context
MDF is supporting the project called "Preventing and Countering Corruption in Papua New Guinea” (PNG Anti-Corruption Project) implemented jointly by UNDP and UNODC and funded by the EU aims to strengthen the Government’s commitment and capacity to address corruption in line with the United Nations Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC) to effectively promote the Sustainable Development Goals for the benefit of all Papua New Guinean. The emphasize of the awareness is to educate and lobby for change in legislation which is denying human rights.
Task description
MDF wishes to engage Online Volunteers to help spread awareness on social media on the topics related to the project "Preventing and Countering Corruption in Papua New Guinea”, for instance on corruption or abuse through investors carrying out illegal logging in the pretext of developing indigenous land from the lease call Special Agricultural Business Lease (SABL), among others. The task is aim to spread awareness to the general public, landowners and Law Makers to take action to stop the ongoing destruction of the rainforest from this SABL arrangement.