Category Archives: Child friendly schools

The best is yet to come!

By UNICEF NZ, Published: July 24, 2009
Greetings from Gizo in the Solomon Islands! I am very excited because today I am travelling by canoe to the islands of the remote Western Province! It will take a good two hours each way but I am really looking forward to it. Once we get there we will be visiting some child friendly schools and meeting [...]
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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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