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A community group at a Community Curriculum session in Tigiri, Southern Highlands

Papua New Guinea · Highlands Region · 2026

Ending Sorcery Accusation Related Violence

A coordinated prevention program reaching communities, schools, and churches across the Highland provinces, giving people the knowledge, tools, and networks to protect their neighbors and reject sorcery accusation related violence.

Results

This is a SARV prevention program working within existing leadership networks to create coalitions within communities who stand against violence, see others doing it, and then pass on what they are learning to their friends and families. The reach of this network is real and it is growing: Papua New Guinean facilitators, teachers, leaders and pastors are carrying the work into communities, schools, and churches across six Highland provinces.

Quick wins: the work in numbers

Where the work reaches today, across the network and its three programs.

Across the network
6Highland Provinces
21Coordinators
Community Curriculum
144Communities
216Community Trainers
2,880Change Agents
Peter and Grace
53Schools
265Teachers
13,000+Students
Where We Work

The PNG Highlands

2026 Community Curriculum - 12 Cohorts
2025 Community Curriculum - Wapenamanda Trial, Simbu Rollout
2026 Peter and Grace in Schools - 53 Church Agency Schools
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