Positive Lifestyle Programme Comes to the Pacific

Since 2021, it has been envisioned that the Positive Lifestyle Programme (PLP) would be available to our Pacific nations. As part of the Community Ministries work in Fiji, Major Beth Campkin, divisional Community Ministries secretary, Fiji Division, and Carolyn Smith, the New Zealand programme facilitation coordinator, have been working together to bring this dream to fruition. In 2023, a group of six Fijian, Rotuman, and Fijian of Indian heritage officers and staff attended the first ever group PLP sessions, once a week for eight weeks. Then in April 2024, 13 officers and staff who represented the different ethnicities of Fijian, Rabian, Fijian of Indian heritage, Rotuman and Tongan came together in Suva at the School for Officer Training to train as Pacific’s first accredited PLP individual facilitators. The facilitators have a vast range of experiences and ministries across Fiji and Tonga.

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