Janetta Douglas, née Smith,
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* Mbé, a town in the Republic of the Congo
* Mbe Mountains Community Forest, in Nigeria
* Mbe language, a language of Nigeria
* Mbe' language, language of Cameroon
* ''mbe'', ISO 639 code for the extinct Molala language
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is a
Papua New Guinea
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charity worker.
In the late 1960s, she was "a young teacher in
Madang
Madang (old German name: ''Friedrich-Wilhelmshafen'') is the capital of Madang Province and is a town with a population of 27,420 (in 2005) on the north coast of Papua New Guinea. It was first settled by the Germans in the 19th century.
Histor ...
", where she "encouraged the women to continue to make pots, assisted with marketing to surrounding villages and to Australia", and helped stimulate a "tourist trade in pottery".
Douglas is the author of a book on ''Tourism in Papua New Guinea'' (Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies, Port Moresby, 1975).
Dame
Carol Kidu
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Kidu was the only female Member of Parliament in the 2002–2007 and 2007–2012 National Parl ...
has described her as an "unsung hero", and said that "without people like Janetta Douglas, the disability data for Moresby South would not be being collected".
In June 2009, she was made a Memder of the
Order of the British Empire
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and public service outside the civil service. It was established ...
by the
Queen of Papua New Guinea
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,
Elizabeth II
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, for "service to commerce and charities, especially through helping people living with disabilities".
"Queen's birthday honours list: Commonwealth"
''The Guardian'', June 13, 2009
References
Living people
Papua New Guinean women writers
Members of the Order of the British Empire
Year of birth missing (living people)
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