Category Archives: Solomon Islands

Child Friendly Schools in the Solomon Islands

By Hamish Lindsay - Programme Manager, UNICEF NZ, Published: March 12, 2010
Yesterday we visited schools from the UNICEF NZ and NZAID KOHA-funded Child Friendly Schools (CFS) project in the Western Province of the Solomon Islands. It’s a 40 minute boat ride from the provincial capital Gizo to Kaza village on Kolombangara island. Kaza was badly affected by the 2007 earthquake and tsunami – the school was [...]
Also posted in Child friendly schools | Tags: , , | 1 Comment

Children helping children in tsunami clean-up

By David Youngmeyer - Communications Manager, UNICEF NZ, Published: October 15, 2009
I spent yesterday on Manono Island, a small island wedged between Samoa’s main two islands and home to some 1,400 people. I was part of a UNICEF team looking particularly at education and health impacts of the tsunami, and accompanied by a volunteer interpreter from Red Cross. The tsunami that struck Samoa on 29 September hit [...]
Also posted in Emergencies, Gaza, Pacific Islands, Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Thanks Gareth and Jo!

By Dennis McKinlay, Executive Director, UNICEF NZ, Published: August 3, 2009
A great big thank you to Gareth and Jo Morgan for their matching funding announced today of up to $500,000 to improve education in the Solomon Islands. New Zealand, what an opportunity to really make your charity donation do so much more! The $1m will be used to build and renovate schools, provide them with solar [...]
Also posted in Build back better | 1 Comment

Double your impact for children through our fund matching!

By Gareth Morgan - UNICEF Ambassador, Published: August 3, 2009
Jo and I have just returned from the Solomon Islands convinced that it’s one of these countries that is going to really struggle to do anything more than deliver merely a subsistence existence to the bulk of its citizens. It just doesn’t seem to have oodles of natural resource advantages and those it does have [...]
Also posted in Build back better | 1 Comment

Now it’s your turn to tell me what YOU think!

By Dennis McKinlay, Executive Director, UNICEF NZ, Published: July 31, 2009
Malaria was the last area of UNICEF’s work that we looked at on our Solomon Islands visit. Malaria is abig problem in the SI, especially in areas where there is stagnant water and mangrove swamps. The solution is malaria nets. When children and their families sleep under a net they are protected. We spoke with one [...]
Also posted in Malaria | Tags: | 2 Comments