2024Achievements
$1,000
DONATED TO NADI DISTRICT SCHOOL
$50,000 IN TERTIARY SCHOLARSHIPS
Provided to the Mua-I-YawiniKavua Trust for 21x Yasawa Island student’s tertiary fees
$418k WORTH OF VESSEL TRANSFERS FREE OF CHARGE TRANSPORT Island transfers provided to villages and communities
56 volunteers
Through the program in the past year including a large group from St Peters, New Zealand focused on support of Ratu Ravuama Primary, coral planting, and beach clean ups.
The Vinaka Fiji Charitable Trust operates throughout Fiji’s remote Yasawa Islands. Vinaka Fiji aims to improve the provision of basic needs and amenities within various Yasawa villages and communities as well as enhance and protect the natural environment through introducing and promoting sustainable practices.
$ 2 , 400 TOWARDS SEAWALL BUILD SUPPLIES to assist with the Natawa Village Seawall Project PADDLE FOR CANCER organised by Castaway Island Resort in support of Fiji Cancer Society fundraiser $1,000 NO. OF VOLUNTEERS THROUGH VOLUNTOURISM BACK IN THE YASAWSA ISLANDS
$4,700 DONATED TO SOMOSOMO CHILDREN’S SHELTER
$5k
SPONSORSHIP Of the 115 strong Yasawa Primary School’s athletics team for their tournament
Build of a structure on the shoreline of the bay so that children waiting for a boat to take them to school (a 15 min boat ride away) are sheltered from the elements.
$10,000 CHURCH LALI BURE BUILD
Funded the building supplies for the construction of a new church Lali Bure facilitated by the Vunitogoloa Village Youth Group