We, your fearless Country Directors, have officially arrived in Suva, Fiji! After only a small delay (17 hours to be exact), our flight landed in Nadi around 10pm, where we spent a fantastic first night at the Beach Horizon Backpackers Resort. Park.jpgWe then spent the next day traveling across Fiji meeting with old and new friends, including... Continue reading »
The business development team’s last project in Fiji was researching, writing, and compiling profiles of twenty types of businesses that South Pacific Business Development (SPBD), Fiji’s largest microfinance institution, provides loans for. The project was proposed by SPBD’s Fiji General Manager, Elrico Muñoz, who saw that the loan officers... Continue reading »
We blogged earlier about teaching music at the Ba School for Special Education. After seeing remarkable results (a rise in Friday attendance from 8 to about 35 students) we were given the opportunity by the Ministry of Education to conduct three conferences in the Western Division of Fiji (Lautoka, Sigatoka, and Ra).In these conferences we... Continue reading »
Our team was happy to begin a new partnership with Save the Children here in Fiji. In the Western Division, Save the Children works to protect and promote children’s health and education in 8 communities. In each of these communities, Health Officials have been brought in, Income generation projects have been introduced and, though still... Continue reading »
In the aftermath of the floods that hit Fiji earlier this year, many villagers’ sources for income generation were destroyed. GOLD Foundation, one of our partnerships that aims to alleviate rural poverty, has invested substantial amount of capital to help 42 village women re-start their micro-businesses. In order to help these women entrepreneurs... Continue reading »
