Links and Other Info
The
National Peace Corps Association's Microenterprise Program gives
investors a truly unique opportunity to have their investment put to
work to break the cycle of poverty in developing nations. Details at http://ectopico.com/mepcms/
Peace Corps / Fiji and Tuvalu Journals
Here are some Peace Corps / Fiji and Tuvalu journals and blogs
that Mike Sheppard RPCV / The Gambia has found online:
www.journeyacrossafrica.blogspot.com
http://www.angelfire.com/journal2/pcvfiji4/
http://www.angelfire.com/trek/peace2go/
http://outdoorplace.org/beekeeping/
http://eric.knepperonline.com/fiji76/
Subject: Looking for Fiji RPCV
Hello!
I work in the Peace Corps office in San Francisco and was contacted by
a woman from Fiji who is looking for a long lost friend who served as a
Peace Corps Volunteer in Savu Savu. The last she heard from her was a
wedding invitation she received in the 80's. Could you post the message
below somewhere on your website to see if anyone can help contact the
RPCV? Thanks, Heather
Does anyone know Kimberly Edwards (maiden name) who served as a Peace
Corps Volunteer in Fiji in 80 - 81? Meresiana Kula is a woman from Fiji
who says Kimberly lived with her and was her best friend in Savu Savu.
She's living in the US now and would love to be able to contact
Kimberly. If you have any information about her please contact
Meresiana at 415-678-8516.
Heather Driscoll
Regional Recruiter
San Francisco Peace
Corps Regional Office
Peace Corps Volunteer
Romania 2003-2005
(415) 977-8787
hdriscoll@peacecorps.gov
Here are a couple websites of interest.
The Fiji
American National Association (FANA)
http://www.fijifestival.com
hosted the Fiji
Festival USA 2006 July 1-2 at California
State
University
East
Bay
in Hayward
CA. This was the fifth year of
the festival. Events
included sports, health fair, charity
queen, and food. FANA
will also sponsor
Fiji Day activities in October.
Peace Corps Encore! is
a new (2003) nonprofit organization
that specializes in developing, managing and measuring social impact
projects
around the world. It plans to deploy former Peace Corps volunteers and
staff
members on short-term assignments in their areas of professional
expertise. For more
information, or to join their talent
pool, see their website http://www.peacecorpsencore.org/home.cfm Peace Corps Encore!
is a 501(c)3 nonprofit and is not formally affiliated with Peace Corps,
Crisis
Corps, or the National Peace Corps Association.
Shark Feeding:
A 20-second video clip of the supermarket shark dive
can be seen at
http://www.fijidiving.com/movies/shark.html
from http://www.fijidiving.com/en/video-clips.html
The Fiji Country Report on
Human Rights Practices in the US State Department’s Worldwide Human Rights
Report for 2004 can be found at http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2004/41642.htm
. The report
highlights continuing tension between indigenous Fijians and Indians. It also notes an emerging
problem with the minority Chinese community which continues to grow
dramatically, primarily through illegal immigration.
The BBC has compiled the
following information on Fiji:
Country profile: key facts,
figures and dates
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/country_profiles/1300477.stm#media
Timeline: A chronology of key
events in Fiji
1643 - present
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/country_profiles/1300499.stm
If you have a high speed
internet connection, zoom in on some cool satellite pictures (including
one from Fiji)
at http://www.spaceimaging.com/gallery/top10_2004/
Views of Fiji
resort beaches can be found at http://www.fijibeaches.com/taveuni/index.cfm
in http://www.fijibeaches.com/index.cfm
Looking for a reason to go to Fiji? Beachcomber Island
Resort invites you to the second annual 2.8km ocean swim to be held
Saturday 6 August, 2005
in the coastal waters surrounding the island. Contestants will swim
from the Nukasiga sand bar to and around Beachcomber Island.
The inaugural race in 2004 featured 42 swimmers from 8 different
countries. For more
information go to http://www.beachcomberfiji.com/resort/swim.html.
How about some surfing at the
Nagigia Island Surf Resort to get in shape for your swim? Until March 31 you may
"Bring a Friend" for half price acommodation and half price flight from
Nadi to Kadavu. Nagigia island is about 1
km off the South West tip of Kadavu. And if you like it,
buy it. The resort
and island are for sale at http://fijisurf.com/island/
David A. Wentland
spent months as a Minor Works Advisor with Peace Corps Fiji from July
1974 - October 1976. For
the past 25 years he has been dealing with our Great Lakes
"oceans" but hopes to find work in the Pacific as an
environmental/coastal consultant.
Information about his company can be found at www.coastalplanning.com
The
Sex Lives of Cannibals : Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific
by J. Maarten Troost describes two years on Kiribati
while his wife worked there for an NGO.
He does a great job of capturing the humor and
frustrations of island life.
Frederick Pitts,
a PC Volunteer aqua-culturist in the Congo,
has written “Things
Are Different In Africa: A Memoir Of Dangers And Adventures In The
Congo.” The
author says the book is a look at the U.S. Peace Corps from the inside
out, coupled with adventure including
dangerous encounters with animals in the wild,
cultural mysteries and dark spirits, isolation in an equatorial
Congolese village, finally evacuation under the gun to Mali near the Sahara desert.
Preview at http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?isbn=0-595-33204-8
The
2002
Fundraiser (pictures) was held
Saturday evening, September 28, 2002 at Church of the Epiphany in Washington,
DC.
Ninety-five friends were in attendance. The evening featured a Fijian
& Indian Buffet, cash bar, live entertainment, raffle and
silent auction. The raffle prize was two round trip air
tickets from Los Angeles to Nadi, Fiji (courtesy of
Air Pacific), and 7
nights at the Mana Island Resort (courtesy of Mana
Island Resort). Thanks to
the Fiji
Visitors Bureau for arranging
the vacation package and bringing the Serenaders, who presented a
program of traditional Fijian music and dance. Funds raised paid for
shipping a container of bicycles and repair parts to Fiji
by Pedals for Progress http://www.p4p.org/
The Friends of Fiji page on
the NPCA website: http://www.rpcv.org/pages/groupinfo.cfm?id=50&category=2
The following web sites offer
more information about current events and visiting Fiji.
(Note: Friends of Fiji
does not endorse the commentary or products offered by these sites)
Fiji
news can be found at:
Radio Fiji http://www.radiofiji.org/
Fijilive http://www.fijilive.com/
Fijivillage http://www.fijivillage.com/
has links to various Fiji
news sources
Fiji Post http://www.fijipost.com/
Sidney, Australia
Morning Herald http://www.smh.com.au/
Pacific Islands Report http://pidp.ewc.hawaii.edu/pireport/text.htm
--- has lots of other links
Yahoo
News -- Fiji
BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/
Fiji
Government Online http://www.fiji.gov.fj/
includes Fiji Today2003 at http://www.beta.fiji.gov.fj/uploads/fijitoday2003.pdf (3 mb)
Ratu
Sir Kamisese Mara ,
Fiji's
first prime minister, passed away at the age of 83 on Sunday, April 18,
2004. His wife, Ro
Adi Lady Lala Mara, passed away a few weeks later.
Fiji
government press releases can be found at http://www.fiji.gov.fj
US Government
sources include:
US State Department Background
Notes http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/
and travel info http://www.travel.state.gov/travel/fiji.html
CIA factbook http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/fj.html#Intro
US Embassy in Fiji
at http://www.amembassy-fiji.gov/
Peace Corps http://www.peacecorps.gov/indexf.cfm
Recent
additions:
"Business
Incubator Seeks to Reduce Retail Failure Rate in Fiji,"
Read
about this UN Development Program in http://www.undp.org/dpa/choices/2004/june/fiji.html
2004 UN Human Development Report
on Fiji
at http://hdr.undp.org/statistics/data/country_fact_sheets/cty_fs_FJI.html
Fiji Meteorological Service at http://www.met.gov.fj/
provides the latest information on Fiji Forecasts, Warnings and
Observations, and Fiji's
Climate.
Wonder what's on tv in fiji
this week? Check it
out on
http://www.fijitv.com.fj/schedules/fiji1/current.html
Fiji Water -- you've seen it in the
supermarket and at Friends of Fiji events, now visit their website at http://www.fijiwater.com/. Fiji Water founder David
Gilmour also owns the Wakaya Club resort on an island in the Lomaviti
Group east of Viti Levu
http://www.wakaya.com/. If you want to daydream
about living large on you next trip to Fiji,
check it out -- rates start at $1800 US per day.
Are you a stamp collector? Order stamps online from http://www.stampsfiji.com/
Others:
National Peace Corps
Association http://www.rpcv.org
The National Peace Corps
Association’s website has a voluntary email directory of
RPCVs and an online bulletin board for posting announcements (both at http://www.rpcv.org under “members
only”).
Peace Corps Online, at http://208.234.30.110/messages/index.html
is an independent news forum serving returned Peace Corps
Volunteers. It includes a voluntary directory of Fiji RPCVs.
The Fallen
Peace Corps Volunteer Memorial Website at http://www.fpcv.org is a memorial
to all the Volunteers who died while serving in the Peace Corps.
University of the South
Pacific http://www.usp.ac.fj/
Wansolwara
is a student training newspaper published by the Journalism Programme
at the University of the South Pacific.
Their website at http://www.usp.ac.fj/journ/docs/news/index.html
has
links to many South Pacific radio stations and newspapers, including
the Fiji
Sun at http://www.sun.com.fj/
http://www.internetfiji.com/
has links to news sites, tourist information, etc.
A recipe for palusami, and
other fish recipes can be found at the website of the Secretariat of
the Pacific Community, Coastal Fisheries Program homepage
http://www.spc.int/coastfish/index.html
and
http://www.spc.int/coastfish/asides/recipes/recipes%5Fold.htm
Rob Kay's Fiji Islands
Travel Guide An Online guide for traveling to and
around Fiji
Escape From America Magazine
and Offshore Real Estate Quarterly at http://www.escapeartist.com/fiji/fiji.htm
Finding Fiji
http://www.southpacific.org/text/finding_fiji.html
contains information and links
John and Janet Pierson's
adventures moving to Fiji
and running the 180 Meridian
Cinema in Wairiki, Taveuni at http://www.grainypictures.com/fijiphotos.html
Akata
Hodgkinson has opened Grass Shack, an island apparel and gifts boutique
specializing in products from Fiji,
located in downtown Truth or Consequences, New Mexico .
The website is http://www.akatasgrassshack.com/
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