A Fiver for Fiji
Help us to rebuild lives and villages destroyed by Cyclone Winstone. Your donations buy food, solar power units and building materials.
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Cyclone Winstone smashed into Fiji in February destroying thousands of homes, causing loss of life and widespread damage to crops.
Months after the cyclone many people are still living in tents, under plastic sheets or in houses made from salvaged materials.
Due to the remoteness of many villages food is scarce and crops will take a long time to recover. In areas where the marine environments are damaged the fishing is very difficult.
The money raised on this page will be used to continue delivering nutrition to the villages.
We are also working to restore lights and some basic solar power as the electricity has been down since the cyclone.
We will also be helping to rebuild the houses in the villages and creating opportunities for volunteers to go and stay in the villages to help rebuild.
While most of the tourist locations in Fiji are untouched and open for business there are many locations which are still suffering and will take a couple of years to begin to recover.
Matt Griffiths' involvement (page creator)
I'm a kiwi that loves Fiji and it's wonderful people.
In April three of us from New Zealand travelled to Fiji to deliver a container of aid which was donated from our communities of Waihi and Waihi Beach.
We delivered the aid to five remote coastal villages that were almost entirely destroyed by the cyclone and tidal surges.
The day we delivered the aid we could not believe what we were seeing. Of the 181 houses in the 5 villages there were only 15 houses left after the cyclone.
People were living in terrible conditions and the food supplies were running very low and signs of malnutrition were showing in the children.
Living in these broken villages was taking its toll on the people, they were losing hope that their lives would never return to normal.
After delivering the aid we decided we needed to return with large quantities of food and three days later we delivered 3500kgs of food including much needed fruit and vegetables.
I am about to return to Fiji where I will again deliver food and spend a week living in the villages working with the people to put together a plan to bring solar power to the villages and plan the rebuilding of houses.
This page will stay open for two years so that donations can continue to help.
Your donation no matter how big or small will make a difference - Thank you!
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Solar energy light kits 24 August 2016
Currently A Fiver for Fiji is fundraising to return to Fiji with 130 solar enrgy light kits to bring lights back into the homes of families who have now been living for 6 months without electricity.
Each Solar energy light kit costs $50 and has a small solar panel, lithium battery, 4 x super bright LED lights and a USB cell phone charger.
We hope to reach our goal of $5000 before the end of August to ensure we can get these lights to Fiji as soon as possible.
These lights will make a massive difference to the families we give them to.
Vinaka vaka levu, thanks for your support.
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