Port Moresby
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Personality
Eileen Tom comes from Hula in Central Papua, where she went to a mission school. At the age of 12 she commenced teaching at the mission, and remained until she was 17, and then trained as a nurse at the Kwato Mission, near Samarai. She used her nursing know ledge to assist the ANGAU in World War 11. After the war she married and moved to Moresby. Her family of eight children kept her busy, but she still found time to be a Guide and to work as a nurse at the Moresby General Hospital.
Two of her girls are married and one boy is in Australia, training as a police officer. The other children are at school in Moresby. Mrs. Tom is now at the Welfare Centre, training young native girls in sewing, cooking and housework, so they can take up positions in homes.
Through the centre she works in liaison with the YWCA and Red Cross and visits the hospital weekly, taking food and clothing.
Destitute cases in remote villages are assisted by the centre —Sibyl Lloyd.