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Working Out What to Wear in Papua New Guinea: The Politics of Fashion in Stella Author(s): Ceridwen Spark Source: The Contemporary Pacific, 2015, Vol. 27, No. 1, Special Issue: Decolonization, Language, and Identity: The Francophone Islands of the Pacific (2015), pp. 39-70 Published by: University of Hawai'i Press Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/24809813

https://www.thenational.com.pg/inspirational-todd-wins-top-awards/ 2011 Founded 1997 in Lae with just three female employees --Lae Everclean now has over 200 employees in Lae and Port Moresby. The founder and managing director of the company is the inspirational Sarah Haoda Todd who was awarded the overall 2011 Westpac Women in Business Award last week. She also received the SP Brewery Entrepreneur Award that recognised outstanding achievement by a woman with at least a 50% shareholding in an organisation in the field of innovation for new products or services. Todd attributed the success of her business to her loyal employees. She said she had always encouraged them to be professionals with positive attitude despite the nature of their job. Her company provided cleaning services to businesses such as SP Brewery in Lae and Nambawan Super Ltd in Port Moresby. The judges said Sarah was a “passionate business leader and an outstanding example of a high achiever”. Head of Westpac retail banking Adam Downie said Todd valued her employee as the number one asset of her business and she had a dedicated and loyal team of employees.

https://www.thenational.com.pg/creating-business-opportunities/ 2015 The National,Thursday August 20th, 2015

IN 1997, Sarah Haoda Todd started a cleaning business in Lae with only three employees.

In 2008, Lae Everclean expanded to Port Moresby. In 2012, Sha-mata Clothing with the product brand of PNGian Kala was added to her suite of companies. In 2011, Sarah was named the winner of the SP Brewery entrepreneur award and overall Westpac Outstanding Women of the Year.

Today, Sarah spends her time managing business interests in PNG, Australia, Fiji and Asia while juggling 250 staff.

She is one of a growing number of Papua New Guineans who have not only harnessed the vast opportunities for trade between the two largest Pacific economies but also the growing trade links with Asia.

Westpac PNG managing director Geoff Toone said: “When Westpac opened in PNG and Fiji more than a century ago, we knew that we were building more than just banks – we were helping to open up avenues for the flow of trade, capital and people between the Pacific, Australia, New Zealand and beyond.

“Our first customers in PNG were predominately companies who operated only in Port Moresby or in one province and now Westpac is proud to be recognised as a very strong partner to companies big and small who are exporting goods, services and resources across the world.”

Westpac itself began as a small business operating in one Australian state.

It has since grown to become one of Australia’s biggest corporations and employs approximately 35,000 people globally, with offices in Singapore, Hong Kong, China, Indonesia, India, New Zealand, London and New York.

Its international operations and innovative digital products allow customers to easily bank beyond traditional borders.

While looking to trade beyond international borders, Westpac continues to focus on its key Pacific markets of PNG and Fiji.

Westpac Pacific general manager Greg Pawson: “We’re growing fast in PNG and Fiji – over the past three years our customer base has tripled and we’re committed to banking these customers and their families for generations to come.

“We’re investing to improve existing branches and open new ones, we’ve grown our ATM and in-store presence and we’re introducing sophisticated but simple-to-use products to the PNG and Fiji markets like Westpac’s unique mobile banking platform for business, corporate online.”

Westpac Fiji general manager Adrian Hughes recently visited Port Moresby to meet with some of the many companies who have major operations in both Fiji and PNG.

“It’s no secret that the Fiji and PNG economies are the powerhouses of the Pacific, and that trade routes between the two countries are good and growing,” he said.

“But it’s really pleasing to also see an increasing number of Asian-headquartered multinationals opening operations who, like us, are in Fiji and PNG for the long haul and committed to driving sustainable economic growth.”

Last year, Westpac was named Number One in the Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the world due to its commitment to strong governance and responsible lending, social and environmental responsibility and the bank’s work to promote gender equality.

Westpac is now calling for nominations for the annual Westpac Outstanding Women (WOW) awards, PNG’s premier awards for women which is now in its ninth year.

To read more about Sarah Haoda Todd and other past WOW winners, and find out how to nominate for this year’s awards, visit www.facebook.com/WOWawardsPNG

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https://www.cookislandsnews.com/local/png-makes-history-at-beauty-pageant/ Judge in beauty pageant Miss South Pacific 2014

https://intranet.dwu.ac.pg/index.php?option=com_attachments&task=download&id=226 2012 Diploma in Management (2 YEAR PROGRAM) https://www.unitech.ac.pg/sites/default/files/Research%20Report%202014_1.pdf Executive MBA @ PNG University of Technology

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http://www.transparencypng.org.pg/_images/news/Annual_Report_2014_WEB.pdf Board Director -- Experience and Expertise: Business woman who conceptualized and launched a cleaning business in 1997, expanding it from a three employee operation to a large company with more than 300 employees and several high profile clients. Currently serves as a committee member of the PNG Red Cross, Lae Branch, director on the Board of Habitat for Humanity, Papua New Guinea, director on TISOL Board (The International School of Lae), and secretary of the PNG Indigenous Business Council Inc. First Elected: 2014

https://www.thenational.com.pg/lae-business-owner-lauds-help-for-smes/ 2011 Lae Everclean LTD suffered from rigid and complicated systems for accessing credit from SME secretary for the PNG Indiginous Business Council challenges to SME: credit, accessing raw materials, no consistient access to basic services “The constraints are largely due to the result of poor infrastructure such as roads, lack of electricity, lack of knowledge in information communication technology (ICT), and human resources and cultural beliefs.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-07-07/sarah-haoda-todd.jpg/5579468?nw=0 2014 Launched Lae Everclean 17 years ago Recently launched fashion line

https://www.thenational.com.pg/lae-prepares-for-tipng-event/ 2013 LAE will hold the Sir Anthony Siaguru Walk Against Corruption organised by Transparency International-PNG on Sunday. The TIPNG Lae chapter executives are chairman Brian Alois, his deputy David Wissink, treasurer Sarah Haoda Todd and secretary Evah Banige.

https://www.thenational.com.pg/local-designer-launches-product-with-jacks-of-png/ Jack’s of PNG store at Vision City in Port Moresby yesterday

https://www.thenational.com.pg/morobe-needs-more-exposure-to-fashion-world/ April 3, 2019 “We have Sarah Todd and model and fashion ambassador Alang Isaac from Lae, but Morobe fashion needs to get out there"

https://www.thenational.com.pg/new-health-board-to-oversee-health-services-in-morobe/ BOARD members for the Morobe health authority (MPHA) will take the leadership in health services in the province, Health secretary Pascoe Kase says. swearing-in of nine board members of the authority: Members sworn in were David Wissink as chairman, Ken Wai as deputy board chairman, Robin Bazzinuc, Rev Lucas Kedabing, Fr Arnold Schmitt, Nellie McLay, Sarah Todd, George Gware and Carol Yawing. ... Kase said the MPHA was a baby, and it needed the board and a good management team to guide it. He explained that through the signing of the ministerial order or provincial health partnership agreement by the health minister and the governor of Morobe, all responsibilities in health function under the provincial and national government (over Angau Hospital) were now vested on the MPHA. board.

https://www.thenational.com.pg/angau-%E2%80%98babies%E2%80%99-set-for-hospital-fundraising-fashion-show/ The National, Tuesday November 18th, 2014

A CHARITY fund-raiser will coincide with the 6th PNG Games in Lae this week.

While the Angau Angels Fashion Extravaganza might be a name slightly over the top for a fashion show in the town, it is a show true in purpose and name.

The fundraiser is for the Angau Memorial Hospital.

Most of the 70 “models” in the show on Thursday at Lae Yacht Club were either born there or have had some sort of attachment to hospital as babies. Hence, the name Angau Angels.

The young males and females have been practising on the catwalk for five weeks at the Botanical Garden. Fashion designers from the region include Lepou of Sydney, Edwin Alba of the Philippines and Cecelia of Samoa.

Local designers include Sarah Todd Haoda’s PNGianKALA Keksii range, Anna Amos’ AA Tribal Wear and Elizabeth Taurega’s Denani range.

Hazel Navurus’ Hazel, a successful Papua New Guinean-based in the Philippines, will showcase her exotic varieties for the first time in PNG after graduating from a fashion design school.

The event is a collaboration of emerging and established designers in the region organised by PNGianKALAHaus of Fashion to raise money for Angau.

Haoda, the event director, said the occasion provided an avenue and opportunity to encourage young men and women expose their talent and build confidence to aim high.

The Angau Angels is a foundation comprising people that benefited from the hospital. The tickets are selling for K250.

Haoda thanked the Lae International Hotel, the National Development Bank (NDB) and NDB Investments for K10,000 and the National Gaming Control Board for K25,000.

Boroko Motors and SP Brewery are sponsoring door prizes. Interested companies can call Susan Muir on 4725000 for assistance and tickets.

https://www.thenational.com.pg/lae-chamber-of-commerce-supports-initiative/ https://www.thenational.com.pg/what-a-senseless-waste-of-a-life/ https://www.thenational.com.pg/hospital-staff-protest/ https://www.thenational.com.pg/students-told-to-keep-oral-hygiene/

SHT is a respected voice in the community

https://www.thenational.com.pg/womens-group-urges-parties-to-end-violence/ June 16, 2016The NationalMain Stories Article Views : 607 Source: The National,Thursday June 16th, 2016 A women’s group is backing the Catholic Church in the call for warring parties to come together and end violence relating to students protest in the Melanesian way. “Woman Arise Movement (WAM) is a pressure, lobby and advocacy group for citizens’ rights to end all forms of violence at the individual, family, community and institutional levels,” Sarah Haoda Todd, told a media conference in Port Moresby yesterday. “We ask for all Papua New Guineans to join this call,” the president of the movement said. She said WAM would stage a Holim na Rausim Haus Krai demonstration this Saturday against the shooting of University of PNG students and try to bring peace and healing to those directly or indirectly affected. “We must resort to our Melanesian and cultural way to have dialogue to bring peace and heal our nation,” Todd said. “We ask women, girls, men and boys to join this call. Church groups, women’s groups, businesses, governments and NGOs are asked to join.” Todd said the movement maintained that key players like the Government, students, police, the University of PNG administration and the prime minister should take full responsibility, be accountable and exercise discretion for a way forward.

https://www.thenational.com.pg/women%E2%80%99s-leader-calls-for-justice/ "business personality" Todd, who is spearheading a campaign for justice in the case with an online group called #Justice forMoanna, said: “I fully condemn the senseless shooting of an innocent young woman Moanna Pisimi. She was a wife, mother, daughter and sister.

https://www.thenational.com.pg/noble-service-by-group-noble/ THE inspiration of YWAM-PNG to provide health delivery interventions and training has been described as noble.

Angau Memorial Hospital deputy board chairwoman Sarah Todd Haoda said healthy citizens determined the country’s success.

She said Angau was excited about networking with YWAM to ensure health workers worked with the organisation to reach rural people.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-01-21/businesswoman-sarah-haoda-todd-speaks-to-pacific/4474396?nw=0 20 Jan 2013 -- Indigienous business council 10% formal sector of businesses -- indiginous people own --need to set up org to be voice for indiginous people --Vision 2050 $500 M ---> $100 M each year (from governemtn???) for indigenous business, council helps people plan, do paperwork, etc. Cleaning business was small, now employs 350 people --rejected 3 times trying to get a loan Govt backing and availability of finances, people understad what impediments and problems might be --was so overwhelmed with being own boss, went in blindly, would like othersn not have these issues

No funding, so had to have a fundraiser, raised K150,000 (Dec) -- another in march --govt giving money to financial institutions to hand out, but need other things, too

Protection of bsuinesess owner companies in this country

https://postcourier.com.pg/group-stages-appeal/ Women Arise Association helps out with earthquake

https://asopa.typepad.com/asopa_people/2011/11/page/3/ Call for women’s involvement in investigating crisis 09 November 2011 BY MARTYN NAMORONG AWARD-WINNING businesswoman Sarah Haoda-Todd has challenged the PNG government to include women in the team investigating the crisis in Lae caused by communal rioting.

‎"Team formed to probe ethnic tension... is made up of men. Aren't there any good Morobean women out there,” Mrs Haoda-Todd wrote in the Facebook group Sharp Talk.

“It is high time that women are included, so that there are fair views and come up with short/long term solutions from both sides for our city. After all, women make up more than half the population of our city.”

Mrs Haoda-Todd, who won a Westpac Entrepreneurship Award, owns and runs a Lae-based business. She highlighted that women have been most affected by the crisis yet their voice has not been taken into consideration by the authorities.

“It is us women who have been the victims. Enough of thinking that men have all the solutions to all our nation's problems!

“A wise man will include women in all decision and policy making of this nation going forward because he realizes that she is his ‘help-meet’. So God help us PNG!” she said.

Mrs Haoda-Todd’s call has had support from many people. One commentator highlighted the pivotal role played by the women of Bougainville during the Bougainville peace process that ended civil war in the region.

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https://fijisun.com.fj/2012/11/13/setting-examples-in-the-cleaning-industry/ 13 Nov 2012 Sarah Haoda-Todd delivering a speech at the The International Visitors Leadership Programme (IVLP) this year in Washinton DC speakers at the big Women in Business Conference opening tomorrow in Nadi. Pacific Islands Private Sector Organisation (PIPSO), for the first time is organising the Pacific Women in Business Conference 2012 at the Tanoa International Hotel. She hails from Poreporena village or popularly known as Hanuabada (big village) in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea (PNG). She has five children with husband Gordon who is also an entrepreneur. Ms Haoda-Todd owns Lae Everclean Limited, which specialises in corporate cleaning and laundry service in Lae City, the second-largest city in PNG.

Ms Haoda-Todd said she also plans on opening in several island nations including Fiji, in the long term – according to her: “If God willing.” Like all businesses, starting one comes with obvious and at times unforeseen challenges. “Most small medium enterprises (SME) in emerging markets such as ours face particular challenges to survival and growth; many lack access to flexible capital which constraints our ability for growth,” Ms Haoda-Todd said. She said her lack of experience became a stumbling block with her first client list.

“I had good mentoring and coaching from an Australian retiree, who had been in the cleaning business for over 30 years,” she said. “This set the foundation for me in many ways. “Ron Werner encouraged me NOT to give up; which I wanted to do so many times in the first two years of starting up my business. He told me to go out and ‘clean toilets and buildings’. “As I had initially started out to be a drycleaning service as well as a laundry service; he said, ‘boss meri, the whole world needs cleaning…are you willing to clean though?’”

“Identify markets and ways to mitigate risks, to lobby our governments to implement sound policies to protect local entrepreneurs,” she said. “In all that you do, always stand for what is right and fight corruption with right standing and know that if you don’t get organised now, you may become spectators in our own land.” Ms Haoda-Todd also owns SHA-MATA Clothing, specialising in American consumer products in clothing and accessories.

https://www.onepng.com/2018/09/png-designer-to-showcase-fashion-label.html 2018 9/13/2018 Business, Headlines Papua New Guinea’s very own established fashion designer Sarah Haoda Todd will represent the country this month at the London Pacific Fashion Week.

For the second time, Ms Todd will be showcasing her fashion label “PNGian Kala”,on the runway in London after successfully debuting it last year. 2018 London Pacific Fashion collective Meanwhile, Ms Todd had been working hard to secure the much needed funds to enable the small PNG contingent to travel to London.

https://www.femilipng.org/a-message-from-a-png-ngo-to-png-businesses-thanks-for-the-shot-in-the-arm/ Enter Ms Sarah Haoda-Todd, CEO of ‘Lae Everclean’, creator of PNG fashion line ‘PNGian Kala’ and woman-about-town. She’s charismatic and connected. She’s also, in her own words, “sick of violence against women and children”. After introducing us to a high profile politician visiting her in her office, and regaling us with stories of her latest business dealings, Ms Todd described her sadness as she prepares for the ‘Walk Against Violence’ rally in Lae (held Sunday 21 February 2016). She’s adding to her already hectic schedule by organising and funding public gatherings highlighting violence against women. As she explained, professionals and business people need to draw on their leadership skills and extensive networks to bring the issue from the margins to the centre. With typical business efficiency, it took one short meeting to agree how Femili PNG will work forward with Ms Todd on outreach activities, combining our organisation’s technical knowledge, resources and experience with her own. Of course, our staff marched together with her at the rally.

https://postcourier.com.pg/png-women-in-nsw-donate-to-angau-hospital/ 2019 SHT - board member of Angau Memorial General Hospital in Lae --group = Angau Angles has contact with group: PGN Women's Association of NSW, Australia -- they donated supplies

https://www.facebook.com/pg/Angau-Angels-Foundation-349731251867041/about/?ref=page_internal About The Angau Angels Foundation is a non-government organization set up to identify the gaps in the health sector and find ways to help alleviate them.

Additional Information The assistance that would be provided may not necessarily be in the form of money – it can be through health outreach programs, or medical equipment or project planning for that matter. The foundation strives to work closely with government, corporate and other charity organization to minimize any duplication of efforts.

https://postcourier.com.pg/hotel-set-to-host-stella-runway-show/ 2016 SHT - Kekeni, in "Runway 2016"

https://postcourier.com.pg/plans-promote-png-fashion-abroad/ 2017 SHT - leader in effort to launch PNGiankala Runway -launching platform to assist in funding promoting their lables overseas, all PGN designers can join

https://medium.com/@wansolwara/png-designer-set-to-overcome-roadblock-535194b67267 2017 SHT -- PNGianKala collection for the Pacific Resort Wear show in Fiji mis-shipped to Africa “The agent that was supposed to send it to me saw New Guinea and thought West Africa,” she said at a FJFW press conference yesterday morning. Whole line - 24 pieces of digitally printed silk Had to get printed abroad ("Asia") because not have right technology in PNG, but mis-mailed But in the 48 hours I have been here, I have found somewhere to print new ones and a tailor who is willing to produce my line or pieces.” She will showcase 12 pieces at tonight’s runway show. ON Spandex because not time to get silk Several of the pieces are dedicated to the late Susan Karike Huhume who designed the PNG flag. “I used the Bird of Paradise and Stars to honour the woman who designed our national flag,” said Todd. “The pieces with the Bird of Paradise and Stars are dedicated to this wonderful old woman, who sadly passed on recently.”

The entrepreneur, who operates a cleaning business that employs about 250 people, spent four months designing and printing the original pieces She said her mission is to showcase the untapped beauty of Papua New Guinea through her brand, PNGianKala. This explains her label’s tagline: Wear your culture. Tomorrow’s exhibition will be her third runway show in Fiji.

https://www.mailife.com.fj/emerging-designers-show-highs-lows/ 2014 Emerging Designers Show at Fiji Fashion Week PNGianKALA by Sarah Todd

We felt like we had been transported to a fabulously fashionable Port Moresby of the future! We loved the way Todd so readily and with great passion embraced her Papua New Guinean heritage in prints and brought it forward into a modern street wear collection. He colour composition, the asymmetrical lines, the printed leggings – fabulous!

https://fijisun.com.fj/2017/05/25/new-world-emerging-designers-here/ 2017 Sarah Todd from Papua New Guinea with her label PNGianKala will be joining the group with her unique PNG flag inspired collection.

https://emtv.com.pg/pom-fashion-show-to-feature-sarah-todd/ First international PNG fashion show - 2016 "port Moresby Fashinon Week" SHT "only designer participating" (Only PGN designer???) at POM - after her "recent" debut at Fiji Fashion Week thinks PNG has the local talent and workforce needed to go into fashion, hopes local people will take it seariously

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http://www.stellamag.com/index.php/blog/archive/cpl-port-moresby-fashion-week-highlights 2013 Thirteen deisgners from across the Pacific, including Fiji, Cook Islands, and Papua New Guinea showcased their 2013 collections for the first time in Papua New Guinea at the new Cosmopolitan Club in Port Moresby on Wednesday 27 November.

With over 40 Papua New Guinean models trained by Stella magazine and Plush 65 Talent Agency together with nine visiting Fijian models, 230 garments were seen for the first time in Port Moresby.

http://www.stellamag.com/index.php/blog/archive/runway-2014 RUNWAY 2014 Since launching Stella magazine, the attention on fashion has been a major element, with features on Pacific Islander designers like Mere and Robert, Sarah Todd, Mes Fidji, and Samantha Farrugia. Readers have taken a predictable but unprecedented interest in purchasing local designer wear. Feature designers including: Sarah Todd (PNG), http://www.stellamag.com/index.php/blog/archive/new-fashion-label-launched-in-papua-new-guinea 2013 PNGian Kala is a new clothing line from Lae inspired to protect and preserve diverse and unique art and culture across borders. new collection was unveiled at the Indigenous Business Council fundraiser award-winning entrepreneur Sarah H. Todd. With the catchy tagline “wear your culture” Keep your eyes peeled for the bilum, traditional tattoo, and Oro tapa inspired designs at our First Birthday celebration.

http://www.stellamag.com/index.php/blog/archive/women-arise-png On Friday 15 March 2013, a new movement calling itself 'Women Arise PNG' presented their action plan to end violence in all forms in Papua New Guinea to Minister for Community Development, Hon. Loujaya Toni, in the State Room of Parliament House, Port Moresby. ... Committee members Sarah Todd and Esther Igo were motivated to action following the brutal attacks on women in PNG in recent weeks, but are determined to be strategic about their approach to enforce human rights and equal rights for everyone.

“We can not feel sorry for ourselves. We have the strength to do this,” declared Sarah in her introduction to Minister Toni. Esther presented harrowing statistics and achievable goals, “We have to have a PNG solution, we know the issues.”

http://www.stellamag.com/index.php/blog/archive/pngiankala-at-fiji-fashion-week-2013 Eighth on the runway was the debut of Sarah R Todd's collection, PNGianKala. The unmistakable influences of Papua New Guinean tapa, tattoo, bilum weave, and lime pot stirred the audience and was rewarded with loud applause.

https://postcourier.com.pg/pngian-kala-takes-kumul-london-fashion-parade/

https://londonpacificfashion.wordpress.com/2017/08/04/papua-new-guinea-fashion-label-pngiankala-in-london-soon/ PNGianKala is a Fashion label created by the Founder/Designer ‘Sarah Haoda-Todd’. Sarah is by far one of Papua New Guinea’s Top Established Fashion Designers and has featured her collection around the South Pacific mainly in Australia and Fiji. Sarah is also a Women’s activist at Women Arise PNG; this is a movement against Violence Against Women and Girls. Sarah is based in Lae Province.