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Savusavu Community Foundation Health and Sanitation Projects
Composed of concerned citizens from the Cakaudrove province in Vanua Levu, Savusavu Community Foundation concentrates its aid in the core areas of Health, Education, and Cultural support. This year with FIJI Water Foundation’s aid, they have organized free dermatology, pulmonary health, and eye clinics given by visiting experts for the citizens of Northern communities. Thanks to the SCF, over 1700 citizens received glasses and eye exams, 175 were provided cataract and corneal procedures, and 200 were treated for tuberculosis, asthma, and other pulmonary diseases. In November, they will host a school-based dental health program, and they continue collecting and distributing books to schools, food hampers to the needy, and working on the construction of Savusavu’s first fitness and sports facility.
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Save the Children Kindergarten Development
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While many former farmers move to the urban centers of Suva, Lautoka, and Labasa in search of work, too many find themselves without land or assets, living in makeshift squatter settlements where their children do not have access to the benefits of early education. The Save the Children Fund has initiated the Mobile Playgroup Project in these areas to bring sustainable, community-driven kindergarten programs to underprivileged communities in urban areas where many children would otherwise receive no early childhood education. Communities provide a potential location for the school, a teacher, and a school committee, while Save the Children provides training, some materials, and support in registering the schools and, in some cases, funding for building the centers. FIJI Water Foundation’s contribution has made playgrounds, toys, books, and educational materials available at these schools, as well as general support for their continued operation and improvement.
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Malomalo Primary School Water Project
Malomalo serves 136 multi-racial students as well as the teachers and their families who live in the school compound. Until recently, they have encouraged children to bring their own water to school, as the rainwater tanks at were rusted and the school well draws brackish water. Thanks to FIJI Water Foundation funding, they have purchased new plastic 1750L water tanks and fittings. Their headmistress reports that now "children have a safe, clean source of drinking water."
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Project Heaven Ear and Eye Screening
Project HEAVEN (Hearing And Vision Enhancement) is a local NGO which, for the last 9 years, has worked to screen the eyes and ears of school children throughout Fiji. By identifying and remedying vision and hearing problems in children, the program has a huge impact on their achievements in school and helps to improve their lives. Project HEAVEN screening programs cycle through the Fiji schools every 5 years, and are staffed by trained teams. A 1998 test screening in Suva identified that about 10% of school student populations required some kind of visual or hearing aid. FIJI Water Foundation supported their work in Kadavu in 2008.
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Save the Children Kindergarten Development
While many former farmers move to the urban centers of Suva, Lautoka, and Labasa in search of work, too many find themselves without land or assets, living in makeshift squatter settlements where their children do not have access to the benefits of early education. The Save the Children Fund has initiated the Mobile Playgroup Project in these areas to bring sustainable, community-driven kindergarten programs to underprivileged communities in urban areas where many children would otherwise receive no early childhood education. Communities provide a potential location for the school, a teacher, and a school committee, while Save the Children provides training, some materials, and support in registering the schools and, in some cases, funding for building the centers. FIJI Water Foundation’s contribution has made playgrounds, toys, books, and educational materials available at these schools, as well as general support for their continued operation and improvement.
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Viwa Village Water Project
Viwa Village is the only village on the small, chiefly island of Viwa and its residents rely on rainwater. Most homes however do not have adequate tank and gutter equipment to ensure hygienic collection of water and water-borne disease is common. The funding will allow for cleaning and repainting of roofs, improved guttering, and new tanks where they are needed in this community. water usage and system maintenance.
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Red Cross Community Safety Programme
The Fiji rainy season is increasingly accompanied by the deaths of those trying to swim in or to cross flooded rivers. In addition, basic fire and first aid safety measures are not readily available to rural people. In response to this, the Fiji Red Cross Society’s ‘Safer Communities’ project is part of a pilot program to deliver to rural communities the programs (Community-based First Aid, “Mind that Child” and Fiji Swim water safety) that have been serving affluent urban groups in Fiji for over 20 years. These programs aim to promote safer lifestyles and assist in the reduction of accident-related injuries and deaths among targeted communities through capacity building, community education, and school programs. The program will be performed in rural Rakiraki, Tavua, and Lautoka.
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The Good Neighbor Community Education Centers
Based in Suva, The Good Neighbor (TGNI) also operates in Australia, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, and Papua New Guinea. The organization focuses on providing grass-roots assistance wherever it is most needed, particularly to the poor, the unemployed, the hungry, and the homeless. Their services include a Suva-based hostel for women, kids, families, and people who have nowhere to turn. They also help communities to improve their lifestyles with water, education, and food security projects. Their motto is “We Build People” and their goal is not to provide a "hand out" but a "hand up."
This year with a grant from the FIJI Water Foundation, they have been able to improve four of their local resource centers around the country. These centers are like big community gardens and farms, with some simple on-site housing provided, and also computer resources and study facilities for children after school. Some people work at the centers everyday in exchange for shelter, food, or clothing.
Navesau Adventist High Water Project
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Navesau Adventist High School is a rural school in the Ra Province catering to 280 students, 200 of whom are boarding on campus along with 25 teachers living on the school compound. The school is highly regarded for its programs, attractive campus, and attracts international students from throughout the South Pacific. Until recently they relied upon collected rainwater for drinking while washing is done in untreated water from the nearby Wainibuka river. With FIJI Water Foundation funding and project management, they now have a fully functional borehole and pump with Rotomould tank system. In addition, the school’s new generator allows not only for more efficient pumping, but will also produce enough power for the newly established computer lab.
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Fiji Water Walkathon
FIJI Water’s Walkathon covered 10km from the Yaqara Factory along the scenic Kings Highway to the nearby village of Drauniivi and back to the plant. Employees, family members, and supporters showed up in large numbers, with an estimated 150 participants, not including volunteer stampers, drivers, first aid, and refreshment teams. Participants solicited local businesses and partners. All funds raised by employees were matched by FIJI Water Foundation and went towards much needed equipment and medical supplies at Rakiraki and Tavua Hospitals, and to support a capital fund to construct multipurpose courts and improve drainage at the Drauniivi School sports ground.
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Mulomulo Muslim School Kindergarten
Mulomulo is 15km inland of Nadi and most of the community members are subsistence or cane farmers. Despite its status as a Muslim school, Mulomulo’s student population is more than half local Fijian and students receive a multi-ethnic, bilingual education, learning Urdu and Fijian. There is currently no local kindergarten or early education program for children in the area.
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Savatu Primary School Water Project
In the mountainous interior of Vitilevu, near the borders of Ra, Ba, and Navosa Provinces is Savatu Primary boarding school. Students travel miles on horseback and on foot from Highland villages to attend this school, live, and eat there during the week, but for years they have been sent home during the dry season due to lack of water. Thanks to FIJI Water Foundation’s borehole project, students now have sufficient clean water supply for drinking, cooking, washing, and hygiene throughout the year.
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Nanukuloa Health Centre Mortuary
The Nanukuloa Health Center is one of 4 subsidiary branches of the Rakiraki Hospital in the rural province of Ra, and the only subsidiary branch with 24 hour electricity. Located about 40km from Rakiraki, it serves the upland rural population of the province, close to 10,000 people with one full time doctor and several nurses. The only mortuary in Ra (total population: 30,000) is in Rakiraki, and can house a maximum of only 4 bodies. Following a request made by the health centre’s board and the local community for additional facilities, Fiji’s Ministry of Health has partnered with FIJI Water Foundation to construct a relief mortuary at Nanukuloa.
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Pt. Vishnu Deo Memorial School Library
Vishnu Deo caters to nearly 500 primary school students from many of the poorest areas of Suva’s squatter settlement community. Nevertheless, the school regularly sends students on to competitive secondary schools. The donation of these educational resources including encyclopedias, reference aids, literature, science books, and stories, will help the school to reflect. The community will contribute towards the building of new shelves and library improvements.
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Sigatoka Valley High School Water Project
Navitilevu District School Dispensary
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Navitilevu District School is accessible only by boat and caters to 112 students from the rural Ra. Students ages 6-13 come from their villages to board at the school throughout the week in dorms, but often students were falling ill and missing school due to lack of sanitary dorm facilities and medical care. With assistance from FIJI Water Foundation, the school committee was able to construct a secure dispensary and sick room, as well as expand the boys’ hostel to include a porch for airing clothes and bedding, thus reducing instances of skin diseases and infections. The project was completed in only a few months and opened amidst much celebration by the community.
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Saivou District School Kindergarten
Fencing and repainting of school facilities may seem like a simple task, but for the children of Saivou Kindergarten it has made all the difference. Their kindergarten, once an abandoned building, is now well painted, upgraded, and fenced, providing children with a playground area which the school will continue to develop. All work was accomplished by teachers, primary school students, and community members. The kindergarten complements the primary school and is a model facility for the region, serving as a host center for teachers’ conferences.
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Vunisoco Water Project
Vunisoco is a remote village in the Namosi province whose 100+ inhabitants regularly take their water supply from a nearby stream. The Good Neighbor International, a Suva-based NGO, liaised with members of this community to help them prioritize and design a plan to address these issues. With their new water tanks, the community now has a centralized, clean, reliable storage for their drinking water where none existed before.
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Western Nurses Awards Packs
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Nakauvadra High School
Good fences make good neighbors, and sometimes, better schools. Nakauvadra Vocational High School is one of four secondary schools in the rural Ra Province and caters to over 250 students with 28 teachers and staff living on or nearby the campus. The school is on the main highway, located near to Rakiraki Village and the Province’s central township of Rakiraki. Unfortunately, due in part to this proximity, the school has regularly suffered from acts of theft and vandalism, with more than 13 reported cases from 2000-2007, and 5 in the last year. With the aid of FIJI Water’s fencing project, the school can now invest in tools and resources to improve their course offerings. This project has also served as learning opportunity for 36 vocational students who will receive training from their instructors as they secure the posts, mix and pour cement, and wire the fence around the perimeter of their school building.
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Daku Village School Water and Library Project
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Tokaimalo Electrification
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Gold Foundation Income Generation Education
Since the 2006 closure of the Vatukoula Gold Mine, more than 1,000 workers are now without jobs or opportunities in the Tavua area. Recently established to address the needs of these people, the Gold Foundation has identified through working with focus groups that many women would like to be more self-sufficient and help provide for their families. Their pilot program, “Coping with Poverty through Income Generating Education” (CPIGE), targets more than 300 women from the Tavua and Vatukoula area of both Indian and Fijian descent. Their workshops on practical skills such as chutney cooking & bottling, farming for profit, handicrafts, and simple marketing skills encourage financial independence and empower women to better manage their time and resources. CPIGE also provides a Tavua market stall free of charge to trainees where they can sell their wares, and helps to connect the women with other markets in Lautoka and Nadi.
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Nadarivatu High School Water Project
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Lovoni School Toilet Block
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Lovoni Fijian School is perched on a hill above the large village of Lovoni in the interior of Ovalau Island. Five teachers cater to 125 children on the small campus. Earlier in the year, however, the school faced potential closure because its lavatories were not up to code. Through the partnership of FIJI Water Foundation with local government, and with the work of the Lovoni community, the school now has an hygienic and environmentally sound flush toilet and septic tank system.
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JP Bayly Trust
The J P Bayly Trust is a charitable non-profit organization created to assist under-privileged citizens of Fiji. It was incorporated as a Charitable Trust on 30th July 1954. It has now been in existence for nearly 50 years. The Trust was established to fulfill the wishes of its benefactor, John Percy Bayly. He sought to make medical and welfare provisions for the poorest members of Fiji’s society and to enable their children to receive an education.The Bayly Education Fund’s aim is to counter destitution by ensuring young people receive a basic education. The Fund currently operates in Suva, Lautoka and Labasa. The Trustees recognize a good education is one of the best weapons to counter poverty. From the year 2002 Bayly Education has assisted approximately 500 children by paying school fees and providing books, etc to children who would otherwise be unable to afford them.
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Soroptimists Water Projects
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Project Heaven Ear and Eye Screening
Project HEAVEN (Hearing and Vision Enhancement) has operated since 1998 throughout Fiji, screening school children annually for ear and eye conditions. By identifying and remedying vision and hearing problems in school children, the program has a huge impact on their classroom performances. Our contribution will provide the means for trained teams to screen more than 3,500 children in the Naitasiri and Tailevu provinces this year.
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Viani Kindergarten and Women's Centre
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Kioa Water Project
A community of about 600 ethnic Polynesians (originally from the island nation of Tuvalu) live on the remote island of Kioa, off the coast of Vanua Levu and Taveuni. Although the Kioans love their Fiji home, they have always struggled to get adequate water supply. Ever since a landslide blocked the access to the island’s only spring, they have relied upon rain water catchment. Now thanks to FIJI Water Foundation partnership donation of 24 5,000L tanks, they have enough water storage capacity for their large village, school and health centre.
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Taviya School Library
Taviya District Primary School is on the remote northern side of Ovalau Island in the Lomaiviti Group and caters to 80 children from nearby villages. Until recently, their students have made do with outdated library books borrowed from a dark closet labeled a library. With FIJI Water’s support, the first such outside donation they have received, the school management will be able to build and outfit a new library.
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Matainoco Community Multipurpose Hall
A fixture in nearly every village in Fiji, the community hall is a central meeting place serving a variety of functions: meetings, receptions, kindergarten classroom, and lecture hall. In their efforts to construct a hall in their village, the 100+ community of Matainoco in rural Tailevu, have fundraised and applied for aid through a variety of sources to no avail. Now, thanks to FIJI Water Foundation and great cooperative effort on the part of the villagers, Matainoco has a beautiful hall featuring a kindergarten, kitchen, and toilet facilities. The village is now also host to government-sponsored workshops and trainings, offering new opportunities for their youth.
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Vatukarasa School Dining Hall
Navunibutu Catholic School Dining Hall
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Domo ni Karmen Opera
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Lekutu School Library
Located in the remote province of Bua on Vanua Levu, the teachers and management of Lekutu District School have learned to be resourceful. The nearest town or shopping centre is more than two hour’s drive away and with more than 180 students and 8 teachers, every resource is precious. The school management applied to FIJI Water Foundation for assistance in constructing a library- until recently books were stored at the back of one of the classrooms leading to interruptions when students would sign out a book. With our support they are now well underway towards having a dedicated school library.
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Tavua Kindergarten
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Vatukoula Library Books
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Nakoroboya Library
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Kavanagasau Library Books
The multi-racial school of Kavanagasau Sanatan Dharm is more than an hour’s drive up the mountainous and unpaved Kavanagasau Road from Sigatoka town. Most of the 100+ students there are the children of rural cane farmers, but the school boasts high test scores and many students go on to excel in High School and beyond. Thanks to FIJI Water Foundation, they now have up-to-date library resources to match their inquisitive minds.
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Serua Library Books
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Bucalevu Classroom
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Nananu Kindergarten
Nananu village is located on the road to Natovi landing in Tailevu, just a stone’s throw from the well-respected Ratu Kadavulevu boys’ boarding school. Children in the surrounding area attend kindergarten in the village, but classes are often displaced or cancelled due to meetings held in the same venue. The teacher does not receive a wage because the school can’t be registered without a building. Now, in partnership with FIJI Water Foundation, Nananu villagers are constructing a kindergarten, uniting the community in support of early childhood education and establishing a school to produce Fiji’s future scholars.
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Tilivia Kindergarten
Tiliva Village School in Nakasaleka is found on the northern-most tip of Kadavu Island, a day’s journey from Suva by boat. The school’s kindergarten is currently homeless, and classes are held alternately at the village hall and on the front porch of the head teacher’s home. With FIJI Water Foundation funding and transport assistance from Pacific Building Solutions, Tiliva Kindergarten and will now have a building to call home on the school compound, catering to 12 children in 2010 and many more in years to come.
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J P Bayly Trust Scholarships
The J P Bayly Trust is a charitable non-profit organization created to assist under-privileged citizens of Fiji. It was incorporated as a Charitable Trust on 30th July 1954. It has now been in existence for nearly 50 years. The Trust was established to fulfill the wishes of its benefactor, John Percy Bayly. He sought to make medical and welfare provisions for the poorest members of Fiji’s society and to enable their children to receive an education.The Bayly Education Fund’s aim is to counter destitution by ensuring young people receive a basic education. The Fund currently operates in Suva, Lautoka and Labasa. The Trustees recognize a good education is one of the best weapons to counter poverty. From the year 2002 Bayly Education has assisted approximately 500 children by paying school fees and providing books, etc to children who would otherwise be unable to afford them.
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The Good Neighbor International Community Education Centers
Based in Suva, The Good Neighbor (TGNI) also operates in Australia, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, and Papua New Guinea. The organization focuses on providing grass-roots assistance wherever it is most needed, particularly to the poor, the unemployed, the hungry, and the homeless. Their services include a Suva-based hostel for women, kids, families, and people who have nowhere to turn. They also help communities to improve their lifestyles with water, education, and food security projects. Their motto is “We Build People” and their goal is not to provide a "hand out" but a "hand up."
This year with a grant from the FIJI Water Foundation, they have been able to improve four of their local resource centers around the country. These centers are like big community gardens and farms, with some simple on-site housing provided, and also computer resources and study facilities for children after school. Some people work at the centers everyday in exchange for shelter, food, or clothing.
