VILLAGE GETS NEW ROAD AFTER 37 YEARS OF ISOLATION

Monokam Village is located several kilometers away from Wabag town, in a remote valley in Kompiam- Ambum District in Enga Province.

The village has an estimated population of about 10,000 people most of them subsistant farmers who cultivate their own land to plant and sell vegetables.

For many years people from Monokam have been without vital government services until quite recently.

A new road built will bring services and development back to a rural and isolated area of Enga Province.

The road link will bring further development to the area especially in Health and Education after over 30 years including self- sustaining projects.

Plans to build a hydro-station to supply electricity and water to the village including  an ongoing partnership between Coffee Industry Cooperation and Villages to create a coffee corporative.

Similar to the Neknazi Coffee Corporation in Morobe Province, made up of 400 farmers. Monokam will have a corporative made up of 300 members. 

The Chairman of the Group Joanis Yola says that the group will receive assistance from the Wabag based Coffee Industries Corporation to start the protect.

"We have gotten help from CIC to help start this project... we have farmers totalling to three hundred who will benefit from this project," he said.