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Fiji Disaster Relief

  • Second food packs delivered

      11 April 2016
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    On Friday 1st of April the Bula Coffee team took a couple of trucks up to the Navosa Region to deliver another months worth of food to the same villages in need. Thats another 12 tonne of food!

    The timing of this couldn't have been better. The villagers were on the last of their food rations from their packs and little did we realise that floods and cyclone Zena were on their way. If we hadn't delivered the food when we did, it would have been a couple of weeks before we would have been able to get the food packs to them due to the flooding.

    The disappointing timing of the rain is that it has washed away many of the crops that were beginning to grow.

    Thank you so much for the generous donations, it has been a huge blessing to many people.

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  • More food parcels delivered!

      6 March 2016
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    This week the Bula Coffee staff have been busy putting more food parcels together for the Novosa district. This area is in the remote highlands of Fiji. Some of these villages are only accessible via river crossings.

    We have been in contact with the local Dismac (disaster management) office to arrange food parcels to get to the villages in most need. The government has been aware of the needs of these villages but has not been allocated any resources to assist them and won't for another couple of weeks as relief efforts have been concentrated on the areas completely wiped out.

    Dismac have been very grateful for the food donations and have assisted us with the use of government vehicles to get the food up the valley. Because of the food packs that we have been doing, local businesses have been inspired to either drop off food directly to us or do the same and get food parcels to other areas.

    So far we have been able to provided OVER 850 people, in 7 villages, one settlement and a few other smaller groups of people with enough food to eat for a MONTH!

    This week we will be getting seeds up to these same villages that are fast growing to help them restart their crops to ensure they have an ongoing food source.

    The villagers have been so grateful for the food as many had completely run out of food and others were surviving on eating rotting cassava (making a soup out of it) and killing the few bats that were around.

    None of this would have been possible without the generous donors from this Give A Little page and the Bethlehem Baptist Church community, so for that we cannot thank you enough!

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  • Relief Distributed

      2 March 2016
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    The last few days we have been busy organising food packs to get to remote villages in the Fiji Highlands. Through the money donated we have so far provided food to 5x villages (few hundred people) to eat for the next month until their crops regrow.

    We will be working in the coming days to get more food parcels to more of these villages in co-ordination with government aid.

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