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Hookworm lecture to Mafulu people, Dilava Catholic mission

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Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This digital image is a surrogate of an item in the Sylvester Lambert Papers (MSS 682) - Box 11, Folder 10. [Title, Date]. Sylvester M. Lambert Papers. MSS 682. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego. Pacific IslandsPapua New GuineaMelanesiaOceania
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Only the concrete slab

By Desmond Andrew Vulua Jr. | Port Moresby, PNG | 26 Mar 2026

I just saw the photos in the website and trying to imagine how will it be from today. As l am from Dilava Meaba major clan of DevaDeva Tribe, Mafulu in Kuni / Bakoiudu, central province, which is now currently called INAU AYAFA major clan.
I've been told by my grandfather's brother late GULUMA Feva that due to various reasons the mission as to be brought dack down to the middle land, which is now called Kuni / Bakoiudu.
Obaoba is the place or a village name, it is located in the center of two tribes, Devadeva tribe of Dilava Meaba major clan and Dilava Doedoe, therefore the church is built right in the center, however only the concrete slab covered with tree roots and grass, very sad and sorry for my people currently living up in the Mafulu mountains with no government services, I am currently still following my great, great grandparents foot path carrying items like rice, salt, torch, ect.. of their needs by walking up an down the mountains trails just to deliver to the old once.

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