Fiji Foreign Student Education Update
Hello
Skyland Missions Board and Congregants,
We
are so pleased to let you know the five students you will be sponsoring this
2022 school year on Kadavu Island, Fiji.
Ulaiasi
Vuniwaqa, Form 3 (grade 8), son of Vilikesa and Emele Vuniwaqa of Tiliva Village. Ulaiasi
will be attending Kadavu Provincial Secondary School.
Litia Siva, Form 3 (grade 8), daughter of Inoke and Emelini Siva of Matasawalevu Village. Kadavu Provincial Secondary School.
Lusi Tabuya, Form 4 (grade 9), daughter of Jiuta and Lisi Tabuya of Tiliva Village. Kadavu Provincial Secondary School.
Dundee Hicks, Form 5 (grade 10), daughter of Glen and Losana Hicks of Lagalevu Village. Kadavu Provincial Secondary School.
Seru Tabusakia, Form 3 (grade 8), son of Isei and Alovi Tabusakia of Tavuki Village. Vunisea Secondary School.
Your
generous donation of US$800 provided FJ$1,487.06. Each family will receive
FJ$250 for school fees. The remaining FJ$237.06 will be for our partner there,
Vilisi Nairogo. She and her husband will use that money for boat fuel to
deliver the school fees to the various villages where the students live.
You've
just eased the lives of these five village families who are always working hard
to earn money for the children to go to school. They often go without so they
can provide for their children's education.
Thank
you so much! And in Fijian: "vinaka vaka levu" !!
Love,
Connie
Durant & Vilisi Nairogo (in photo, far right, with little boy in front of
her)
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Kadavu Connection, Kadavu, Fiji
Connie Durant, a member of Skyland Church wrote us in May 2021, ” Bula Vinaka, a warm Fijian greeting of love and thanks, to the Skyland Church congregation and the Missions Board for your generous donation to our Friends of Fiji / Kadavu Connection school fees sponsorship program in 2021! “
Skyland Church has been helping students from this tiny island
with sponsorship to cover student fees for room and board and transportation to
the larger island so that they can attend high School.
One of the students that we sponsored through High School was Nia. She successfully completed her final year of Nursing School and expects to graduate in early 2022.
Connie continued to update us on the students during this difficult time of the pandemic.“Fiji has been hit particularly hard, economically, with the pandemic, so your contribution meant more this year than you can imagine. One family, our friends and neighbors when we lived on Kadavu Island, was in great need, as their eldest daughter, Salaseini Lele Lewania Naivalurua (nickname Nia), is in her final year of Nursing School, and the family lost all their sources of income. Nia has worked very hard since primary school, and when she went to high school, Skyland was her sponsor. She always achieved very high marks, not only in classes, but in overall academic contests. Nia continues to study hard, get high grades, and is looking forward to graduating in January 2022! Her hobbies are reading and swimming, and she turned 21 this year. She has two younger sisters, and a younger brother. Her parents, Rogo and Tulala, are very hard working, intensely devoted to the education of their children, and are extremely grateful to Skyland Church for the many years of sponsorship of Fijian village school children.”
is in her final year in Nursing School
Nia with her fellow students at Nursing School. She will
graduate this year 2022 !
