Titiana & TC Catholic community Diving and Fishing Project

Proposal Compiled by Rellysdom A’aron Malakana

Diocese of Gizo, Western Province

Date: 7 July 2008

Introduction

Titiana and New Mandra were the villages most affected, with the greatest loss of life in the April 2^nd 2007 Quake & Tsunami in Gizo. Rehabilitation programs have  continued especially to bring back lives to normal. These activities are continued for certain periods only. This make life difficult and everybody is still living in tents. As usual Fishing & Diving are the main incomes for financial support and many live on swamp taro as the main diet.

(Click to enlarge the Swamp Taro)

Photos of the devastation can be seen by clicking on this link.

Beginning the Month of May this year, Catholic communities from Outside Gizo Town ( Titiana & TC) received help from Dominican Sisters and the new Parish Priest from Gizo. This helps some families to Buy Sago palm leaves and others for a day sawing timbers. However this practice will cause “still asking for help”.

As for myself, I am engaged (Ready to Marry) a woman from that community and share same experience like them and have been looking for solutions for continuous support within ourselves, this is by proposing a proposal (see below). This proposal will be a solution for us to work together and support each other without too much demand from the Diocese. This idea motivated me to submit thiis proposal.

The cost of this project is approximately US$15,000 or Eur$11,000 and it will greatly assist with subsistence of the villages.

Project Title:

Titiana & TC Diving and Fishing Project.

1. Project Location:

Mile 3 (Titiana)

Constituency:

Gizo Kolobangara Constituency

Province:

Western Province

2. Project Applicant or Responsible Accountable Person for the Project

Name:

Rellysdom A’aron Malakana

Contact Address:

Diocese of Gizo. PO Box 22

Phone: 60656 / 60130

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3. Amount of  Requested Funding

SBD $87,500.00 (Eighty seven thousand, five hundred Solomon dollars)

1. Project Management

This project will be managed by Mr. Manager who will be a chairperson which will be under the supervision under our small committee. He will contact meetings for the on going activities. His/her assistant will be Mr/Mrs. Vice chairperson.

Committee will work closely with the chairperson under the supervision from our community.

The community including the 5 members of the committee will assist the Chairperson, his/her vice, the treasurer, the secretary. The secretary will responsible for keeping and recording and setting up of the working Plan for weekly or Monthly Program with the committee etc. And the treasurer is responsible for Banking and other expenditure/ requirements.

Office Bearers

Below are some of our recourse persons (e.g) which were identified

Name	Title	Responsibility	Skill
Shem Ione	Chairman	Contacting meetings	Book Keeping
Dominic John	Vice Chairman	Assistant to chairperson	Village Elder
R. A’aron Malakana	Secretary	Setting up of the monthly activities (Keeping & Recording)	Media & communication
Mrs. Francisca BeiBei	Treasurer	Banking and Buying requirements for the project	In home economic (Book Keeping) Ex- ST Ann Student
Mrs. Lucy	Member	contributing	Cooking
Martin	Member	contributing	Diving
Mrs. Meme	Member	contributing	Cooking
Mrs. Taro	Member	contributing	Cooking
Maio	Member	contributing	Diving

2. Implementation

2.1 Action Plan (a) (Activity 1)

Activity	Month	Week	Day
Meeting	1st month	1st week	1st day
Diving			1st night/day
Fishing Trip			2nd night/day
			3rd night /day
			4th night/day
			5th night/day
			6th night/day
Cooking and sales of cooked and uncooked fresh fish			Day 1 to day 6
Meeting	2nd month	1st week	1st day
Banking			2nd day
Diving & fishing		Week 1 to week 4	Monday to Saturday
Cooking & sales of uncooked food		Week 1 to week 4	Monday to Friday

• Night diving

The above will last till a year old and we will evaluate our Project.

1. 2. , 1 Action Plan (b) (activity Diving 2)

Activity	Week	Day	Area (reef location)
Diving	1st week	1st night	Diving site 1
		2nd night	Site2
		3rd night	Site3
		4th night	Site4
		5th night	Site5
		6th night	Site3

Diving grounds are up to 20 sites. Others can be made arrangement with owners.

2. 2. , 2 Outcome of our Activity 2

Activity	Fuels	obligations	Day 1 (Estimation of catch, worth-)	Week 1
Diving	10litres ($120.00)	24 Batteries ($96.00)
		Ice/Blocks (20.00)
Total	$120.00	$116.00	$1,500.00 to $ 2,000.00	$ 9,000.00 to $12,000.00

• Subtracted $236.00’s we might got estimated of $1,264.00 to $1,764.00 a day

In within 1 week we are expecting $6,168 to $9,168.00 +++ in our project. The activity is for 5 divers only; we can organize more Divers for our project.

2.3, 1 Action plan (C) (activity3)

Activity	Fuels	Obligations	Day 1 (Estimated catch, worth-)	1 week
Fishing trips	30litres ($360.00)	Ice blocks ($20.00)
Total	$360.	$20.00	$1,500.00 to $2,000.00	$9,000.00 to $12,000.00

• • Subtract $380.00; we might get $1,120.00 to $1,620.00 p/day. Within 1 week we are expecting $6,720.00 to $9,720.00 +++. Including, if we fish for Shark for its fins, this will double up our expectations. Out from fishing we saw many source of our income like,

Bechdeemar, Trochus, shark fins, sales of fish, etc

Types of Fish/shell fish.

• Grey fish/ Lobster

• Grabs

• Squids etc

• Clam shell

• Trochus

• Shark fins

• Bonito ( tuna)etc

• Reef fish

(These activities will involve 4 groups for Day and night jobs)

2. 2. Maintenance

We will subtract quarter percentage from every day catch. This will go towards maintaining our project i.e OBM engine or Canoe.

2. Beneficiaries

In our two communities we are total up to about 30 Families which I believed may benefit mostly the women and the children.

2. Intended purposes or Outcome of the Project

• Assist in rehabilitating the livelihood in our community this is by providing financial support for proper housing/accommodations and Sanitations

• Once the Project established it will involve other community members (who had scatted around to provide them any means of supporting their families) to involve, this means, this will be an opportunity to organize ourselves for Church activities in community and parish as well.

• Such project will organize us to depend on ourselves rather than Parish, Diocesan, Dominican or Caritas.

Budget Breakdown

Conclusion

Photo’s been taken to support our proposal.See the end of this article.

It is now one and the quarter year and life is still difficult for us. The land now where we live belonging to our Province and we were told to stay and the resources we have is the Ocean to fish for our income and small huts beside the road side for selling betel nuts and tobacco. But for a start we need support from others who realized our situations. As I am now in-law to them and experienced the same situation, I am submitting this proposal. I will be in the Project contributing in coordinate so thinks will be in progressing well.

RELLYSDOM AARON MALAKANA

(Media & Communications Office, Diocese of Gizo)

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