Building Teams
Growing Partnerships
Our People
SIL-PNG is a diverse organisation with staff from PNG and around the world. We partner closely with local communities and churches to pursue solutions to overcome language-related barriers. We collaborate with governmental, non-governmental, and industry organisations to address the challenges facing PNG’s language communities.
Keep reading to meet our staff, our language community workers, and our partners as they tell their own stories of working with SIL-PNG.
Staff
We have over 500 staff living and working in Papua New Guinea. While about half of our staff is from PNG, our team also includes people from over 20 other countries, bringing a wide set of skills, experiences, and perspectives.
Rudy Yawiro (from Morobe and Manus Provinces) is the Senior Manager for Language Services. Hear about the scope of her work as a manager.
CLICK HERE to read how Jinhwan Kim, from South Korea, applies his skills as a sound engineer in serving as a vernacular media specialist.
Translation advisor Hanna Schulz is from Australia. Here she shares about her experiences living and working with people of the Gulf Province.
Language Community Workers
We are currently engaged with around 150 language communities across PNG. While SIL staff bring a range of expertise, local community members understand the culture, context, needs, and desires of the community. We work in close collaboration with the community in order to ensure relevant, sustainable solutions. Meet some of our language community workers here:
Papua New Guinean translators Emson Simion and Yana Ilong describe the impact of their work among the Nukna people in Morobe Province.
Trainer Dodo Bratson, from the Eastern Highlands Province, shares how working for SIL has impacted her own life.
Nathan Duhe has come from the USA to work as a translation advisor. Here he reflects on his work with the Aighon language community in West New Britain Province.
Working in Partnership
We work with a wide variety of partners in pursuing transformation in PNG. Collaboration with churches, NGOs, and government organisations is essential to achieving our shared goals.
Listen as Stephen Moyaru shares about over forty years of partnership between SIL-PNG and PNGBTA (Papua New Guinea Bible Translation Association).
CLICK HERE to read about SIL-PNG’s long engagement with the Church in Papua New Guinea.
Learn how Education for Life (an SIL-PNG initiative) partners to empower education and literacy in Papua New Guinea, bringing technology even to remote communities.
Discover more about the different departments and how they serve language communities.