Motherhood: Loss and Release, Vulnerability, Courage and Joy.
Motherhood has been an ongoing process of loss and release, leading me to vulnerability, courage, and joy writes our founder, Arieta Tora Rika. I knew something was off one morning when I sat up on my bed and felt the room spinning around me. My...
Storytelling: Connection in Adversity
Talanoa founder, Arieta Tora Rika, reflects on the importance of reminding ourselves that connection is a form of resilience in the face of adversity. Storytelling may seem trivial during a crisis and yet it is one of the most powerful pathways to connection. During times...
Generating a positive future for health literacy in Papua New Guinea: Lavau Kwalam Ngaluc
PNG Health Project was founded in 2017 by Eve Golma to address an ongoing gap in health literacy. Each year, a group of medical students travel to Papua New Guinea and reach out to over 2000 students to provide a foundational understanding of various facets of...
Accepting My Hair
By Tamia Mahe As a Pacific Islander, growing up having thick, curly hair made it difficult for me to be accepted into society. Throughout primary school I was bullied because my hair was different from the other kids, it was “too big” or “too much”...
Waivunia Marine Park: Luke Tuibua’s Story
The day before Cyclone Winston hit, Luke Tuibua and students from Deakin University (Melbourne, Australia) were hard at work planting mangroves along the coastline near Luke’s village Waivunia, on the coast of Vanua Levu, the second largest island in Fiji. Mangroves combat coastal erosion – the complex underground root...
Investing in Fiji’s Water, and Youth Leadership: Broderick Mervyn’s Story
Tell us about yourself – who are you, where are you from? Ni Sa Bula Vinaka and Noa’ia e mauri, my name is Broderick Mervyn, I am currently a 3rd Year student at the University of the South Pacific, Laucala Campus completing a Bachelor of Laws. I...
Hamilton Hughes, Health and Fitness
Hamiliton Hughes is an Australian based Fijian, passionate about health and fitness. For more than a decade his involvement in sport has seen him gain a depth of experience playing rugby league at various levels, even representing his country of birth (Labasa, Fiji) with the Fiji Bati. Today,...
Monica Waqanisau and Life with Vitiligo
Tell us about yourself – who are you, where are you from? If I had to answer this question on the surface I would answer ‘from Suva’ but of course the Pacific custom is to start from where my parents are from, this is essentially...
Turning the Tide on Obesity and Undernutrition
LAUNCH FOOD, a new and exciting challenge calls on all Pacific innovators – individuals, schools, universities, organisations and companies – to put forward their ideas around how to create meaningful change to solve food and nutrition issues that are faced by people in their local...
Punaoa, Tumama and the Beauty of Albinism
My name is Punaoa and I am a mother of 3, and wife to one-man haha! I’m a stay-at-home Mum who also runs a baking business from home to help provide for my family and my Dad who also lives with us. I was born in Australia, but...
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