Projects
Partners
Prayer Partners:
3 Current
7 Needed
Total Opportunity:
$21,600 Funded
$45,741 Needed
Demographics
- Location:
- Papua New Guinea
- Speakers:
- 35,000
- Start Year:
- 2008
- End Year:
- 2011
Rigo IG Cluster
Languages participating in this cluster:
- Sinaugoro
- Kalo
- Taboro
- Boku
The Rigo project includes four related language groups: Sinaugoro, Taboro, Boku and Kalo. The villages lie along the southeastern coast of Papua New Guinea near the capital city of Port Moresby. Most people earn their living by fishing, selling dried coconut (copra), tending fruit trees or cultivating gardens of taro, yams and pumpkin. They build simple homes of local materials like bamboo and palm leaf thatch.
Christian missionaries found the Rigo area in the 1880s. Today more than 90% of the population consider themselves Christians. Yet, people fear spirits and assume witchcraft is responsible for unexplained deaths.
This Rigo Cluster is incorporating projects that had been a part of the Central Province Cluster and including others to provide organization and accountability as well as allowing for more efficient use of consultants’ time and other resources.
News from the Field
- Dec03
The Rigo Cluster
The Rigo Cluster starts new work (and continues previous work) in Papua New Guinea for The Seed Company. There are four groups: Sinaugoro, Taboro, Boku and Kalo. The villages lie along the southeastern coast of Papua New Guinea near the capital city of Port Moresby. The project goals are New Testaments (NTs) in two languages; and Old Testaments in two languages. Christian missionaries found the Rigo area in the 1880s. Today more than 90% of the population consider themselves Christians. - Aug27
Rigo Cluster of Papua New Guinea
35,000 in four groups - The Rigo project includes four related language groups: Sinaugoro, Taboro, Boku and Kalo. The villages lie along the southeastern coast of Papua New Guinea near the capital city of Port Moresby. Most people earn their living by fishing, selling dried coconut (copra), tending fruit trees or cultivating gardens of taro, yams and pumpkin. They build simple homes of local materials like bamboo and palm leaf thatch.