Madang Province, in the north of Papua New Guinea's main island, is home to one of the most high profile figures in Papua New Guineas judicial system. Justice Nicholas Kirriwom was the first of his people to graduate in law at the University of Papua New Guinea in the 70s. His professional life has meant he spends much of his time in the cities of Lae and Port Moresby. But his sense of duty to his family and community, sees him frequently return home to his isolated village of Meiwok, where he uses his knowledge of the modern world to help his people.

Tania Nugent: It's easy to find Meiwok village - just drive about three hours out of the township of Madang and ask for the village with the TV. It's the only one in about a 10 kilometre radius.

Justice Nicholas Kirriwom: This is the house of fame in the village where people from neighbouring villages come together with the people from here, when the big games come on in Australia. They all contribute fuel in order to run the big genset here to watch the game.

I want to bring whatever amenities that there are in urban setting back into the community so that the young people can stay at home and enjoy these benefits, enjoy these services back in the village.

We started producing our first dried cocoa beans early last year, 2008.

Tania Nugent: The land this cocoa plantation is on was purchased back from the Catholic Church by the community, who collectively own it and work on it.

Justice Nicholas Kirriwom: This plantation here, there were different views expressed. They said, 'Let's divide it up'. I said, 'No we can't divide it up it remains communal property', because our children and their children are the ones who are going to benefit from this in the future. We have been able to fund a lot of our community projects with the income that's been generated from the cocoa sales - the construction of the double classroom for the elementary school, the maintenance of the water supply.

Tania Nugent: And the plantation has funded their biggest project yet, one that includes surrounding villages in the Ulingan Bay area. A new surf club to host visiting surfers has been established on land that was degraded by logging and left vacant.

Justice Nicholas Kirriwom: Land is very scarce. Land is very sacred to the people in our country, in our society. We cannot all own land and that's what I try to emphasise to the people. In 10 or 20 years time, our population is going to grow big so that whatever little land we have won't be enough to allocate to everyone, so we have to think about living in harmony, sharing what little we have.