Posts Under Fote Category
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Friend and volunteer Vivien Dinh is now in Fote and has created a website to document her experience. Read her honest, insightful and hopeful words here:
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Michelle is currently in the Solomon Islands with new volunteers but we are so very sorry to say that we never posted our last volunteers’ account of their experience in Fote. We are so sorry Max and Sarah! We hope you forgive us Amidst all the moving, traveling, getting married (for Rhoda!) and setting up in U.S., your wonderful story…
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When approached by my brother, John, with the idea of doing some volunteer work in the Solomon Islands, my first question was, where’s the Solomon Islands? Apart from hearing the name once or twice in my life I didn’t know where it was and knew even less about what goes on there. I soon learnt a bit about the country…
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Last September-November 2009, our good friends, brothers Mark and John flew all the way from the UK to the Solomon Islands to help us achieve the goals that we set during the Adopt-a-Village drive with News.com.au. In just 8 weeks they accomplished more than we could imagine – a new building for the pre-class, fresh paint for the main building,…
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IT started as an online experiment to see if we could raise enough money to make a difference for needy kids in one tiny jungle village. And thanks to your generosity the reality far exceeded expectations with your donations smashing through the $10,000 target to give the children of Fote Village a real world Christmas they will never forget. The…
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YOU’VE done it. Thanks to the generosity of news.com.au readers, the kids from our adopted village in the Solomon Islands are about to have a Christmas they will never forget. The team from our partner charity, Little and LOUD, are leaving today for Fote Village laden with gifts after your donations successfully passed the $10,000 target in our crowdfunding project….
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WITH your generous help we have already smashed through the halfway mark and then some to raise more than $6000 for the needy kids of Fote Village in our $10,000 Christmas charity drive. Since launching the news.com.au Adopt a Village “crowdfunding” project with the Little and LOUD, charity last week readers have added $6378 to the pool to help the…
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NEWS.com.au readers have raised almost $5000 to help the children of Fote in the Solomon Islands in our “Adopt a Village” crowdfunding project. The sum achieves the first four targets and gives the kids a Christmas celebration with a movie screening under the stars as well as buying much needed sporting equipment, art supplies and new library books for their…
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THEIR tiny village may seem remote but they are our neighbours. This year news.com.au is bringing Christmas to the needy children of Fote Village in the Solomon Islands by using the networking powers of the web to “crowdfund” a series of projects. How much we’ll be able to do will depend on the generosity of you – our readers. As…
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MIRJAM Verkleij, 25, is a nurse who was the first of the Little and LOUD team to work at Fote Village. Here she tells us how the vision started. Going to the Solomon Islands had already fulfilled my dreams to travel to the unknown but when my friend Michelle (Roldan, Little and LOUD co-founder) sent me an email to tell…
