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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 [...]
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A challenge for UNICEF!

By Dennis McKinlay, Executive Director, 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 illusions [...]
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I’m here!

By Dennis McKinlay, Executive Director, 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 facing [...]
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Blogging from the Solomons!

By Dennis McKinlay, Executive Director, 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 last year [...]
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