Lack Of Funding

This project started February 2008. All the necessary papers works and requirements where furnished and done up. These included registering of our Business group, opening up of the post office box, organizing and getting our company stamp done with Moore Printing, Approaching Taxation Office - IRC, securing the service of a Project Manager, which is PNG Development Services Ltd, Australian Owned and operated.

We then proceeded not to organizing and securing a Professional Accountant who has a background of assisting people with Proposals to come up with our Technical Proposal.

Its was a full business proposal [24 pages] with appendixes and certications and recommendations from various stake holders included, we had a 40 page Proposal done, printed in color, binned and signed off and then handed over to Central Provincial Governor MOROI's Project Office, Member for Goilala, Mathew POIA's office, PNG Fresh Produce Development Agencies Ltd - Micheal Atuai, AusAID, NZAID Offices respectively.

To date, no one called us, e-mail us, or even reply to our proposal why way of snail mail.

Does this mean we have missed something out in our Proposals? Or does this mean our Project is not inline with the National, Provincial and Local Level government's development Plans?

Agriculture, I thought was the backbone of this nation. And anything Agricultur was always going to be take as priotity number one.

What we have done and geniune and the right and correct thing to do. We meet all the criteria. We ticked all the boxes that needed to be ticked. And what is the hold up. Had someone come back to us and told us what is wrong and what needed to be done, we would have corrected that and returned with the correct version.
Sadly that is not the case.

This agriculture Project if funded, will benefit the small people in a big way. Money will be brought back to them. They will farm their own land and then sell their produce and earn their own cash, which then can be used in various ways. School fees, soap, rice and tinned fish, clothes, tools for working, salt and cooking oil to name a few.

Why this project did not get a mention is one thing and howthis project did not seem geniune is another thing.

ALl we can do now is wait.

Anthony MORANT
Chairman _ Kanitata Fresh VFBG