FIJI

Fiji as a multi cultural island faces a lot of challenges with their young people.

As a generation that listens with their eyes and see with their ears grow, the vulnerability to different issues becomes a fear.

Olafou has created a strength based approach that captures the young peoples attention and make them not hesitate to respond positively to those issues.



As the course continues, youth workers finds themselves challenged to be discipline with their calling.

Like Uncle Eki always say....

"GOOD THINGS

COME OUT OF FIJI"

PARTNERSHIP FOR CHANGE

In the last block course there were two significant things that happened. One of them was the launching of the Pasifika Partnership Fund.

We welcome the partnership that was launched on the 13th of November 2009 with TEAR FUND New Zealand, and TEAR FUND Australia who have set the platform for support within the Ola Fou family.

This came out of the discussions as we realized that for youth workers to implement different projects addressing the needs of young people that has come through their discoveries in the Through Their Eyes Project, we need to develop a partnership with different churches, organizations or even individuals who are willing to support them and see these projects come to fruition.

We pray that this will grow and become a tool that will help provide a better future for a young person who is in need, a society that needs rebuilding, and a community that needs development.

As Mike Wood from Porirua NZ stated during his launching speech, that when an agreement or partnership is signed, the piece of paper as a memorandum is not important, the signature is not important, the money and support granted is definitely not a priority, the PEOPLE is what makes the PARTNERSHIP work.

Because at the end of all this, the people is what makes CHANGES happen.

CODE OF ETHICS FOR PACIFIC YOUTH WORKERS LAUNCHED IN DEUBA.

The second version of the Code of ethics for youth work in the Pacific was completed in October 2009.

Youth leaders from various NGO's, churches and youth groups from four Pacific nations Samoa, Tonga, Solomon and Fiji participated in robust conversations on the code.

Once completed this will be a first code of ethics that will inform youth work in the Pacific.

The full code can be viewed on the Praxis website http//www.praxis.org.nz.

At the moment people are requested to give feedback on the code with the intention to review the code in December 2010.

Written by: Asinate. Savu-Korocowiri.

THE JOURNEY CONTINUES.....

“As we train, we forecast that in the near future we will gift countries and communities in the region leaders who will do a positive work with young people. This is not only a dream, it is becoming a reality” U. Eki

Ola Fou began with a drop in 2006 with the cry to professionalize youth work in the Pacific.


It is now almost four years and the ripples of that drop have reached not only the different Agencies of the Youth Workers, who have journeyed with us over the years, but more drops have birthed out of it and more and more ripples are developing throughout the Pacific regions. This year PNG have joined in the journey.


Our goal is to equip youth workers on the ground with tools to develop and empower them as they work with young people in the communities they live in.