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pews for seats isn’ta common practice in Canada.

~ By GEORGE LEE -
Review Staff Writer

‘But then again, neither. is taking students swimming in
waters. where sharks have been reported. =.

Both happen in Papua New Guinea, where Rick and Sandy
Phillips. of Sidney spent two years of their lives teaching for
CUSO ina school for Grades 7 to 10.

nae | always wanted to go overseas and this seemed the ideal
way,’’ Sandy Says.

Rick’s reason.is a
says to his wife.

It’s'now:been nine years since the couple return ed. from the:

a little: simpler.

istence.. 2/6 ae
~ Their only child: ‘al ithe: time
- day, ‘the two: substitute, teachers. also. shaye
> daughter.

arriving they. were transferred | to a new placement on 1 the
coast: :

fridge, a-sink and_a- fireplace. “AL you.'did. to:sweep. was
sweep ‘the dirt: through the cracks in the floor,’ Sandy recalls.
_ Then they moved to the coast of New Ireland to teach ata.
Catholic mission high school.
There they found a friendly admimsrraion and a group of
about 42 students eager to learn. Rick took a position left by

opening. «4: _—
As. a shop teacher, Rick oversaw major. projects that
benefited the school — and emphasized the need for. self
sufficiency.
- built desks for the’school’s use. _
. “The more desks we made for the older arades,
~~ second-hand desks we had coming down.” -
Rick: was also the. jack-of-all trades” around the ‘school,
“When the mai generator broke. down, he. sent it-out for
. repairs. For a week, the school survived with power supplied
by a litthe Honda back-up generator,
Rick also taught English, and it was there-he learned that

the more

br eak through, ;

‘The subject of soreery came up. a “Or course, none Sof vou
believe in sorcery,’ Lasked, and nobody said anything.”

One of. the.¢ ‘atholics from the mission came in and asked
the same question, ‘Livery hand went up,"

Soreery is Cenrbedded in their tives,” Rick explains,

Also embedded in the lives of people at the mission is a self
sufficient lifestyle, When Sandy finished her work day, she
went to work in the garden,

A work party at the schoal built the libary, Some: students
actually mace the brick from coral and concrete.

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Transporting ‘students in an open- -sided truck with chureh-

“y “think it was you,” he

jungles. of Papua. New Guinea and. a targely. primitive, eNs
“a'son, “ig AOw'12 years ‘ola: ‘Tor:
a four- “ye ar- Ol ;

The Phillips’ first: op: was in rthe highlands. bur soon ler .

AL the first (ep; they lived i int: rabusht hoinse with a stove e, 6. na: __ jungle —

another. teacher, and Sandy w aited for.several-weeks for an ;

His Grade 9s and 10s built a house. Classes also -

~ there are certain barriers even a well- pecmliiy & mesenien can't.

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» Rick was even part bus driver — or.as lose to a bus driver
as possible. When the holidays came, he drove a truckload of

students: back to their small towns and villages. eo children

sat on church pews, in the open air.
‘“‘Every day we had some new experience and it meals made

life incredibly interesting, .’ Sandy says.

But it wasn’t all joyful. A’ poor. medical system placed help

~ beyond. many of the village children.
The, Phillips.remember. one boy-being: sent, ome to dies in-
“his village, with three of four heart valves failing...

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**That hurt,’* recalls Sandy. ‘‘He was such-a sweet boy.’

And the education system didn't have room for all, so an

_ examination: system recruited: for=the higher grades.
was Written in Grade 6 for advancement, another in Gr ade 8.

a student 24 years. old: was ‘stil

A test

At the Phillips first posting, 4

7 attempting 10. advance to Grade’? :

It’s.a primitive system by Canada’ S standards: And yester~
= day shows.up in Papua New-Guiiiea in oer. Wayseo oy
: which no: ‘one has con-. ae
"sidered necessary to. clean: “up, ‘Hitter. the jungle. Tanks ‘sit. |
“umoved. eS

Relics from. the Second: World: War,

sandy. scully round a live bullet j in er aiden:

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~ After. two years, the couple returned from that relic- filled ae

a paradise in some ways; but-notin others.
Bur did their being there do any good?

“> “Ina small-way,"’ Rick says. *'l often questioned iwhiy’ an
was there; whether we helped the country, because we Wweren ae

really training anyone to replace, US.

**But | remember the missionaries saying that just by being ;

there as.a family the people.could see how we got alonz”’

The. couple, too, learned something” from the placement:

tolerance, self-sufficieney, and resourcefulness.

“Ina way, it was like camping fortwo years,’ Sandy says

When. they. returned from the camping t: iP, the couple eX-
shock, They’d spent two years ina.

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country that can’t afford proper health. care, a place where
sick children are sent home to die.
Back home, a convention centre was hein built,
money was poured into E xpo 86, .
“T just shook my headin alisbelief at the

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South Pacifie,

More than 200 projects hiv ve heen supported in agriculture,

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in Victoria at 384-3732,

One current program is.a recruitment of fishermen for the
South Pacific.

The: island. nagon of “Vanuatu is developing it ‘deepwater
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