Posted November 11th

In this post we’re continuing with our recent donations of educational materials up in Tavua, Rakiraki & Ba, on the northern side of Fiji’s main island of Viti Levu. First though, here’s a photo from our recent meeting with government minister for social welfare, Dr Jiko Luveni. Also in the picture are our friends & charity workers Peter & Margaret Long who brought a lot of our current stock of educational materials from England. The wall map on the right shows the Fiji islands, many of them covered with little green flags: all villages where Dr Jiko’s ministry has donated much-needed sewing machines to women’s groups.

Back to Tavua, a nice little town with a population of about 3000. Last time we donated books in the primary school so this time we concentrated on kindergartens & the secondary school. Many thanks to Rachel & Oli, in the photo below, who drove us around to all the different institutions that we planned to visit.

Tavua kindergarten with friends Rachel & Oli

Tavua Secondary School

hunting expeditions or in warfare! Thankfully things have calmed down a lot since those days…..