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Violet Langan is a Brisbane pastor who also moved to Australia from Fiji and helps households struggling to afford bills and food explained that groceries have become quite expensive even for this the employed. “It’s just too expensive for things that have risen in costs, the basics. You don’t get much out of $100,” she […]
Pastors Meli and Evelyn Tamanisau lead PAL workers in to in cooking and giving out food. They said that the number of people coming for meals has grown. The pastors started cooking meals before the COVID pandemic, when Mr Tamanisau was working at Sun Pork, and the […]
“Eda sa qaqa”, the harmonies of five Fijian PALM workers filled the air of a warm and spice-scented kitchen. A tune well known to those back home and means “We have overcome”. While others spent Saturdays making the most of […]
From performing at family weddings and get togethers to gracing the world stage. This is a story of a young girl whose passion for performing arts made all her dreams come true. Bernadette Kaulotu Suiqa hails from Nadakuni, Naitasiri with maternal links to Nukubalavu, Savusavu. The 28-year-old is currently a dance teacher in El Paso, […]
Starting this Saturday the 18th of May, hundreds, if not thousands of Suva Grammar School ex-scholars will converge on Suva to celebrate the school that helped shape them in to the people they are today. Ahead of that, former students of the school have been sharing stories from their time there and the stories are […]
For the families and supporters of the Suva Grammar School U16 team who are currently on tour in NZ here is the full game between them and Massey High School.
Meet Seru, Eliki, Jiuta, Tevita and Samu a group of young lads trying to earn some much needed pocket money for when they start school. The boys, who range in age from Year 7 to Year 9 are from different schools but all live in the same neighbourhood. When interviewed they revealed that the money […]
Beginning on the 9th of May to the 14th of May at the Vodafone Arena in Suva, the Netball Fiji All Star Series promises to deliver on some exciting games and a chance to meet some potential future Fijian netball stars. Let’s meet some of them
Mistbows Special Friends is a self funded charity group founded in 2020. With its many works in reaching out to the communities of Fiji, they are excited to host an initiative battling NCDs. They have taken the responsibility of feeding the less fortunate, mainly aiming their efforts at youths and children in need, either on […]
A Tiktok video of a teacher on Tiktok who has started the practice of hugging her children at the end of each school day has got many praising her for her efforts to touch her young kids lives in a positive manner. As one person commented, this may be the only hugs some of these […]
