Archive for the ‘Solomon Islands’ Category
Meet Bonney Corbin, IWDA Program Manager for Solomon Islands
Thursday, July 22nd, 2010
This month one of our volunteers, Iona Roy, had a chat with IWDA Program Manager, Bonney Corbin, about her experiences working in the field. Bonney works on the Solomon Islands
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Girls Take Up Leadership Workshop
Thursday, January 14th, 2010
A newly formed leadership group for young Solomon Island women between the ages of 15-29 was formed early 2009.
The group is named Girls 4 Change and undertakes a variety of
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STOP Domestic Violence Program in Solomon Islands
Thursday, January 29th, 2009
IWDA partner in the Solomon Islands, One Television, ran the first 30-minute episode of the STOP Domestic Violence Program early in February 2009. IWDA has supported this project through Australian Ethical Investments, in response to a request from Dorothy Wickham, the head of One Television.
She has engaged all of the women’s groups in Honiara as a reference group and launched not the 3 minute segments we were originally expecting, but a full-scale program!
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Women Rise to their Feet in the Solomon Islands!
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007
Trudy Hairs, Overseas Program Manager – Solomon Islands
Nukufero is a remote Russell Island village in the Solomon Islands. A particularly isolated region, the Russells have no roads, few phones
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Solomon Islands Community Capacity and Sustainability Development Project
Tuesday, October 10th, 2006
Sharing the toil
How do you get women excited about building a better walkway to the toilet?
Simple – organise them into teams and turn it into a competition!
Sulufou is an
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The Malaita Games- Solomon Islands
Tuesday, October 10th, 2006
Winners…Grinners…who cares about the scoreboard!
The East Kwaio region of Northern Malaita (one of the bigger provinces in the Solomon Islands) is known for its strong “kastom” – pijin for custom
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Solomon Islands Provincial Games Project
Monday, December 12th, 2005
Project Summary:
The Solomon Islands Provincial Games project is a new initiative in sport-for-development aimed at promoting social cohesion and offering Solomon Island women and men in each of the country’s
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Solomon Islands
Thursday, September 1st, 2005
Solomon Islands – Sustainable Development
Women are to be seen, but not to be heard; life for most here is still determined by the male members of the family’ says Jennifer
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