CORE BUSINESS
1: Pacific Research & Community Consultancy
CURRENT RESEARCH: The kinds of research we are currently working on are:
ˇ Living in Two Worlds: The Challenges Facing Fijians in New Zealand
ˇ Solomon Island Material Culture at the Waikato Museum: Assessing the Methodology of Collecting and Exhibiting the Mead Collection
RECENT PUBLISHED RESEARCH
ˇ Pacific Women's Perceptions of Access to Healthcare for Diabetes and Related Illnesses: An Insight into the Pacific Enderley Community, Hamilton, New Zealand (2005), Summer Internship Report for Health Research Council, New Zealand.
POTENTIAL AREAS OF RESEARCH & CONSULTANCY:
ˇ Indigenous Development in the Pacific
ˇ Pacific women's issues and Empowerment
ˇ Identity of Pacific youth in New Zealand
ˇ Project Management for Pacific people in culture and heritage
ˇ Repatriation of Pacific Material culture from International Museums
ˇ Indigenous intellectual property right
ˇ Pacific Oral history collection and recording of culture and traditions
If you area of interest is not listed here, contact us and we can see what we can do to assist you or your group.
We can also link you to the right people who can assist.
2. Publication of Children's Resources
The recent series of Fijian legends published on the Fijian newspaper in New Zealand are
currently being considered for publishing. All our resources will be bi-lingual, and future plans will also
incorporate the Hindustani language. The first Fijian legend is to be launched in June 2006.
CHILDREN'S RESOURCES (FIJIAN AND ENGLISH)
These resources comprise Fijian legends that represents the fourteen (14) Provinces of Fiji. Eventually
stories and legends of many villages will be incorporated, as a way of recording these stories for future generation. The books are aimed to be fun, engaging and capture the imagination of our children.
The aims of this book production are:
ˇ To encourage our young ones to read in English and Fijian
ˇ To allow reading as a family time
ˇ To bring back the appreciation of Fijian legends
ˇ To link these legends to actual villages and places in Fiji
ˇ To bring back the art of story-telling
ˇ To develop the imagination of children
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