PROJECT SITE
Village: Sikel

LLG: Nuku

Ward Number: 2

TCA DS site/team: Woloplik (Mupun)

 

COMMUNITY ORGANISATION

Community working days: Mondays

Active community groups: Church / Womens

 

COMMUNITY PORTRAIT
Culture Group:

Language: Yel

Number of Clans:

 

VILLAGE OFFICIALS
Ward Councilor: Francis Wonki

Ward committee members:

Village elders:

Church leaders:

Women's leader: Josepa and Anna

Youth leader:

School Headmaster:

Magistrate:

TCA Representatives: Samuel Kabaru and Cletus Yanu

Aid Post Officer:

School Board Representatives:

 

DEMOGRAPHY
Number of houses:

school: None. Will go to Mupun if available in 2004. Laingim too far

Churches: Catholic

Mission: Laingim and Angukunak

Aidpost: Laingim

Population: 200

 

INFRASTRUCTURE
Trade store: In Laingim

Fuel Supply: Kerosene when available

Vehicles: None

Permanent Buildings: Reasonably good church. Cocoa fermentary.

 

GEOGRAPHY
Distance by road: Not accessible

Rivers: Small creeks in area for bungal water. Interested in connecting Pipe water for main village.

Terrain: Half way down a hill on other side of Mupun. Two separate villages.

Elevation: 586 meters above sea level

 

SOCIAL ISSUES
Very isolated community with very little assistance from the outside

Malnutrition problems. CDS grant given in 2004 for nutrition program. Equipment used by TCA during nutrition course.

 

ECONOMIC ACTIVITY
Cash Crops: Cocoa.

Other sources: Women sell food at the Mupun Market on Saturdays

 

TENKILE / ANIMAL INFORMATION
Only moratorium village that has the Golden Mantled Tree kangaroo ( Dendrolagus goodfellowi pulcherrimus ). It is called Oumak in their tok ples Yel

Sikel have agreed not to hunt Oumak

As far as we know Sikel do not have Tenkile on their land