Category Archives: Build back better

Lives lost and lives re-built.

By UNICEF NZ, Published: July 28, 2009
Our next visit was to Titianna, one of the more affected and troubling communities located on the opposite side of the Island to Gizo, which is the main town of Western Province. It was this side of the island where the tsunami wrecked the most damage. People lived on the edge of the beach and [...]
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Rebuilding shattered lives (and a crocodile encounter)!

By UNICEF NZ, Published: July 27, 2009
Hi Folks, Sorry about the delay in the blog posts – as you can imagine, internet connections are not always the best when you are visiting remote islands! The plane we travelled in to Gizo had a sophisticated (!) refueling system. It was back to good-old hand pumping from 44 gallon drums of fuel!! The [...]
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A challenge for UNICEF!

By UNICEF NZ, Published: July 22, 2009
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 [...]
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I’m here!

By UNICEF NZ, Published: July 22, 2009
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 [...]
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Blogging from the Solomons!

By UNICEF NZ, Published: July 18, 2009
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 [...]
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