Also Island Scholarship Fund

Cruisers and visitors to Also Island join in village life at Cawaro. The local school is always a highlight Ò and a surprise!

Cawaro is a centre for schooling; children come by boat and on foot from 4 nearby villages and settlements. When distances are too great, the children stay for the week under the school's boarding system, sleeping and eating in the simple but adequate accommodation and benefiting from supervised homework sessions.

As in village life, the older children help care for the younger ones, some of the older boys get up really early to collect fruit and vegetables for the boarders' meals from the school's own gardens.

Jim and Kyoko offer some of the children learning opportunities on Also Island on the weekend. These children are nurtured and encouraged to further their schooling so they can aim high, have a fulfilling career in hopes of a Îtrickle down' effect to the village.

Cruisers and visitors have shown their support by bringing books and school supplies and sometimes by offering a donation.

The time has come for us to focus on our top students and get them into higher education, and with this in mind we are setting up the ÎAlso Island Scholarship Fund'.

Any donation receives full acknowledgement and 100% of receipts will go to the fund and be awarded to a deserving student. Any donation for any project will go 100% to the project.

Projects waiting funding:

•  Repair of the village boat engine: FD $3,000.00 • New engine FD $12,5000.00

• Boat for the school, a 22 foot runabout that the ALSO Island Limited would build and 40 horse power outboard: FD $15,000.00

• Cement basketball court for the school: FD $2,000.00

• Remote coconut pressing facility: FD $7,000.00

We will post updates on the Also Island website so that you can have the pleasure of following the students' or project progress. In Fijian we say Îvinaka' for Îthank you', for your donation we will shout loud and clear vinaka vakalevu' Ò thank you very much.

We feel confident of gaining a soft spot in your heart and in return sending you greetings and information on the beautiful people of Fiji and projects of your interests.