People are turning up in numbers to donate whatever money they can towards the appeal to Get the Children Back to School.

The Communications Fiji Limited Teams based at various centers say that they are almost reduced to tears to see a family, who were out doing their back to school shopping stopped by and gave whatever money they had left with them.

So far more than $30,000 has been raised so far for the Get the Children Back to School Appeal. The appeal organised by CFL radio stations, Fijivillage and sister stations – Navtarang, Sargam, Viti FM and FM96 along with our website fijivillage.com is aimed at ensuring that funds are raised to help children go back to school when the new school term starts next Monday.

All the cash donations collected for the children will be handed over to Save the Children Fund to assist the children with their school fees and daily bus fare and lunch.

Save the Children Fund's Chief Executive, Chandra Shekhar said they have the mechanisms in place to administer the relief efforts using the same model used to assist children in Vatukoula
to provide fees, lunch money and bus fares.

For those who want to donate cash now to help the children go back to school, you can come here to the home of Fijivillage at 231 Waimanu Road, our Lautoka office at the Sugar Cane Growers Council building and our Labasa office located at 10 Rosawa Street. You can also deposit your donations to the CFL Appeal Account at Westpac, account number 9800-935-794.