The Vunisei District School Project

We recently visited an incredibly remote village on Kadavu Island, Fiji. On our last day, we were invited to the local school and asked if we could help out by producing a fundraising video.

Vunisei District School is severely underfunded and needs help to repair significant cyclone damage and make improvements to its facilities to better serve the children and local community.

The school sits on a steep hill above Vunisei village, and serves around 100 children from four local villages up to 7km away (Muanisolo, Naivakarauniniu, and Daku).

There are only a couple of roads on Kadavu, and none in the north eastern part of the island. So the children (aged 5 to 13) have to either walk through a thick mountainous jungle to reach school every day or be dropped off by small tin boat.

There is only one jetty to access the village which lies at the heart of the mangroves, and it can only be accessed at high tide. At low tide, kids have to be dropped off down the coast and walk through the local piggery to get to school.

As a result, huge numbers are contracting life-threatening leptospirosis, a bacterial disease spread through the urine of infected animals. Antibiotics clear the infection, but access to these is difficult, often impossible, from Kadavu.

Please help us to help the children of Vunisei District School by giving anything you can!

Your donation will go direct to this project, and you can follow our journey and track progress via our website and social media channels.