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Monthly Archives: July 2009
A challenge for UNICEF!
View a photo essay of our first day. Today we met with the Ministry of Education, the Secretary for Planning, and the New Zealand High Commisioner Deborah Pankhurst. It was really useful to get the context about the situation in the Solomon Islands. And it was clear that the local people and children are under no [...]
I’m here!
We arrived in Honiara yesterday on a beautiful sunny day – quite a contrast to what we left behind in Wellington! We headed straight to the UNICEF headquarters, where we met the amazing team of staff who work on UNICEF projects throughout the Solomon Islands. They gave us a very insightful briefing about the issues [...]
Categories: Build back better, Child friendly schools, Solomon Islands Tags: Solomon Islands 1 Comment
Blogging from the Solomons!
UNICEF NZ Executive Director, Dennis McKinlay, is visiting the Solomon Islands next week to see for himself the impact of UNICEF’s work. “I am very much looking forward to returning to the Solomon Islands on Tuesday to see further progress on our reconstruction work since my last visit in September 2008. When I was there [...]
UNICEF goes 350
I just had a great meeting with Charlie from www.350.org.nz. It was really worthwhile getting our heads together to share our upcoming plans around how to tackle climate change. Like the team here at UNICEF, the guys at 350 are as keen as mustard to get lots and lots of young New Zealanders involved in [...]
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