A 71-year old Catholic priest in Papua New Guinea has established a community-based group to look after some of the estimated five to ten thousand orphans in the capital's squatter settlements.
The group, called WeCare, is caring for orphans in a country that offers no official support for these children.
Father John Glynn says the children are left roaming in the streets, eat leftovers and sleep in doorways or empty buildings.
Father Glynn says he established WeCare to trigger a change.
"What we do is to empower the local communities to look after their own children. We try to find carers from within the settlements who are prepared to volunteer. We provide a little bit of money, food, clothing, [and] pay school fees to enable these carers to do something."
Father Glynn says WeCare has enrolled around eleven children into schools, while community volunteers currently care for about 150 orphans by teaching them basic reading, writing and housekeeping skills.
