Pioneer didimeri - Mrs Desie Wirua

Abstract

Mrs Desie Wirua is one of the few women Rural Development Assistants who has ever worked for the Department of Primary
Industry. Mrs Wirua was born before the second World War in Vunamami village on the Gazelle Peninsula of East New Britain.
She received a formal education to Standard 3 at the Vunamami Methodist. Mission near Kokopo before the Second World War. She
has two adult children, John and Jenny, who have also worked at some stage for the Department of Primary Industry.