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Haus Pikinini is a place to call home for children who don't have someone to provide TLC for various reasons. We are supported by P4K-PNG and friends

23/12/2025

Support Donna Harvey-Hall in her mission to develop a home for disadvantaged and orphaned children in Papua New Guinea, and help provide the love and support they need.

12/10/2025

Returned home from Australia to a big delivery of donated shoes. Thank you again to Angela Novak and her marathon runner friends for the footwear supplies and thank you to Harmony for shipping them to us.

15/08/2025

This young girl, Carisma Martin from Watut/Menyamya, was the proud recipient of the bicycle we won in the John Rosso raffle in Lae.

It wasn't difficult to find which of our children to give the bicycle to as she got such a great report from school. She came from disadvantaged circumstances and only started school when in Grade 3 because of her age, but has caught up very well and is now in Grade 5.

07/06/2025

We received a large quantity of baby clothing and supplies in the last lot of donations and while we were able to sell them in our fundraising sale, it was extra special to be able to gift some to the Neonatal Ward at our closest hospital.

The head midwife and trainee nurse on duty at Bulolo Hospital happily received the donation. We were told that many mothers travel days and days from very remote areas to get to the hospital and often don't have the basic necessities for their newborn babies 😔

27/05/2025

This weekend we held our annual fundraising sale at Haus Pikinini...

It was a massive success and brought out the best and worst in many of our town residents. We managed to raise enough funds to purchase a few high priced items that we needed for the orphanage, like a generator and a ride-on mower.

Thank you to all of our donors over the past year, especially from Byron Bay, as these were the things that were surplus to our needs at Haus Pikinini but good enough for people to buy.

Thank you also to Harmony Gold who delivered these items to us in good order. Our small town has benefittted from your company in many ways.

20/05/2025

Hi everyone!!

Haus Pikinini will be having their annual fundraising sale on Saturday 24th, Sunday 25th and the following Saturday 31st May from 9:00am.

We will have bedding, books, toys, shoes, sport uniforms, bags, and lots of clothing for men, ladies, kids and babies, all at a very good price!

We are hoping to raise enough money for a new generator for Haus Pikinini so please come along and support us.

Due to limited space, please no kids allowed.

Where: Haus Pikinini/Harvey-Hall Compound
When: Saturday 24th, Sunday 25th and following Saturday 31st May starting at 9am.

Thank you! 😄

17/05/2025

We returned home from Brisbane to a house full of donations from Australia!

Haus Pikinini kids and carers were excited to have new clothes and shoes, especially warm clothing to get them through the colder months.

All the schools in our community will also benefit greatly from the large number of boxes of classroom supplies sent from Leanne's Legacy - thank you so so much! We can't wait to get these boxes out to them and know how much it will be appreciated.

Once again, thank you to Sue and Geoff Spargo and the entire Byron Bay Community as well as Harmony Mining for all your effort and hard work in collecting, packing and making sure the donations were safely delivered to us here in Wau.

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Wau

Telephone

0411 739 379

Website

https://paradise4kids.org/haus-pikinini-orphanage/

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Donna Harvey-Hall.....

~Founder Donna Harvey-Hall~

Haus Pikinini has been in my head for quite some time but like most things you take on later in life, it really had to wait until the time was right.

I previously have run a street kids programme which was self-funded but was not a full-on operation and looking back I could have done a lot more than I actually did but the good news is that it has moved on and evolved into the Haus Pikinini of today where we are able to help a lot more younger children.

Our small town is in a mining impact area and we have far too many young children who slip through the widely-acclaimed Wantok System which has broken down under the strain of far too many deaths of young parents.

I have a large property which is quite ideally set-up and has been turned into a home for young children who are not being adequately fed, looked after and are not going to school as they should be as education is the only way they will escape the cycle of poverty.

I have set it all up as a home rather than an institution and the 29 little children we are caring for learn basic literacy skills before they start school and are being fed and clothed and we are trying to restore them to an acceptable state of good health. I have a staff of 10 others as we are in 2 buildings and the children have to have 24 hour care.

I am a firm believer in love and compassion and the children have responded to this very well. I also believe that they will become more confident when we are able to recognise individual talents that they may have.To this end we encourage them to sing, play musical instruments, paint and draw and play sport.

Haus Pikinini has come to the stage that it has reached today through Facebook as that is my main means of communication and through friends and contacts we have accessed the help we needed to come this far. People and church groups who visit us cannot believe how happy and how well-mannered the children are.

I am connected with another charity in Australia called Paradise 4 Kids(P4K) and they support an orphanage in Sierra Leonne. They have shared ideas to help me fundraise for a new building on land which I have donated to P4K-PNG Haus Pikinini Project. The premises we are using now have been leased by me to the project for 20 years at an annual figure of K100 per annum. We are very fortunate to have these buildings as they are just perfect to provide the home-care that we are giving .I also have provided 7 staff houses and 20 acres of land for the project which we are using.

With the help of Paradise 4 Kids we have been given the green light by a charity monitoring group called HADA in Qld and have been approved by the Australian Tax Office as a Not-For-Profit Charity. We have lodged with the PNG Internal Revenue Commission and should be receiving our tax deductible status very soon.

There are so many challenges but they are being ironed out one by one. I do regret having to turn away people on an almost daily basis but I honestly believe we would be doing a disservice to the children we are caring for if we sacrificed quality care for quantity of children. To this end we will continue and hope that the end result will be young, educated and well-brought up individuals who can contribute to their communities and not be a burden.