“People who don’t value education are poor in every sense of the word”. This is the starting statement of Ms Kasanita Buloulutu, a 63 year old indigenous Fijian (I Taukei) grandmother as she takes a slow resurveying of her village house, her backyard herb, flower, vegetable, fruit and root crop garden and the surrounding sugar cane farm.

May 27, 2014

Community Learning in… Fiji

“People who don’t value education are poor in every sense of the word”. This is the starting statement of Ms Kasanita Buloulutu, a 63 year old […]
January 19, 2014

Warm Salads Castaway Island, Fiji

One of the key messages from Fiji’s Ministry of Health is to eat more fresh fruits and vegetables to help prevent NCDs. Why? The ancestral diet […]
November 18, 2013

FRIEND marks diabetes day

FRIEND’s month long Blue Ribbon Awareness campaign against Diabetes has been concluded with various fun filled activities through which communities were sent strong messages in taking […]
June 15, 2013

Fiji and Me

When I think of the food I loved growing up, I think of Fiji. My experience there had me ‘food–wired’ and it was where my whole […]