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5000 youths are expected to benefit from the Open Skills Training that will be provided by the Commonwealth of Learning in partnership with FRIEND. FRIEND says during the pandemic, they saw unemployment rates incre
Prices are going up and people are continuing to depend on imported processed food. FRIEND FIJI Founder and CEO Shashi Kiran says people are still struggling for food even though they are employed. She says t
Single mothers, divorcees, widows and grandmothers make up the largest group of people who have undergone livelihood skills training through FRIEND Fiji to be able to fend for their families. Founder and CEO, Sashi
A Facebook live series which will look into how our ancestors fought injustices will start next month as a build up to the Indigenous Day in August. FRIEND Fiji Founder and CEO Sashi Kiran says this ‘Indigenous S
Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama has said that the Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre and FRIEND Fiji are not NGO’s. He says they are members of the National Federation Party and PAPI. Bainimarama made these comm
Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama has today said that the Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre and FRIEND Fiji are not NGO’s. He says they are members of the National Federation Party and PAPI. Bainimarama made thes
Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre Coordinator and Human Rights Activist Shamima Ali says since election campaigning has started, it is in the interest of all of us and for good governance, integrity and honesty to have a Car
Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre Coordinator Shamima Ali and FRIEND Fiji Director Sashi Kiran are calling on the World Bank to give more details after they estimated Fiji’s national poverty rate for 2019-2020 to be 24.1%
65-year-old Kelerayani Tinai is thankful for the support provided by the non-government organisation, FRIEND Fiji during the COVID-19 period last year as her main source of living was cut off due to the lockdown. T
FRIEND Fiji Founder and CEO, Sashi Kiran says there has been a steady increase in requests for assistance for food and stationery for children largely from families in the Western Division. Kiran says a lot of peop
FRIEND Fiji CEO Sashi Kiran says Minister for Disaster Management Inia Seruiratu has accused them of not working with his Ministry and helping members of only one political party, however thousands of people who they ha
The Foundation for Rural Integrated Enterprises and Development (FRIEND) says allegations being made willy nilly by the Minister for National Disaster Management Inia Seruiratu is only slowing down their progress to ass
FRIEND Fiji continues to receive requests for masks and sanitisers from schools. CEO and Founder Sashi Kiran says they currently have 80 pending requests from schools in Lau, Namosi, Naitasiri, Vanua Levu, Nadroga
In an effort to try and stop the spread of COVID-19, FRIEND Fiji has been providing masks and sanitisers to schools upon request. CEO and Founder of FRIEND Sashi Kiran says these are primary, secondary and special s
FRIEND Fiji has so far assisted 876 families with food rations this month who are unemployed due to COVID-19 in the West. CEO and Founder Sashi Kiran says they continue to assist people that used to work in the tou
FRIEND Fiji has continued to deliver food ration packs to evacuation centres after they receive requests from people affected by the widespread flooding cause by TC Cody in the West. CEO and Founder Sashi Kiran say
An urgent call is being made to everyone to donate clothes, beddings, kitchenware and sanitary items as about 800 families were severely affected by the recent floods during TC Cody and are in desperate need of these it
The Small Micro Enterprise Network in collaboration with FRIEND Fiji is organising an emergency relief to assist families affected by TC Cody. The CEO of the Foundation for Rural Integrated Enterprises and Develop
FRIEND Fiji’s flood relief works have been boosted with donations from Fiji and abroad. FMF Foods Limited made a surprise donation to FRIEND delivering 100 bags of 10kg rice, 100 bags of 10kg flour, 80 packets of
More families in the Western Division have received food ration packs from the Foundation for Rural Integrated Enterprises and Development or FRIEND Fiji. The FRIEND Fiji distribution team has delivered another 61
