Women’s Group Assist Tsunami Victims - Solomon islands
Joanna Sirhetti; 7/2/08
The National Women’s League (NWL) released extra funding worth SBD$36,500 to assist tsunami victims in the Western and Choiseul provinces. The Taiwan Ambassador to Solomon Islands, George Chan, presented the financial assistance to the Chairwoman of the ‘First Lady Charity Fund’, Lady Alice Waena at the Government House on Monday. Former Madam Emmy Sogavare led a delegation of women, all wives of former Ministers in the previous government, to visit Taiwan November last year and pledged for the assistance.
See: http://solomontimes.com/news.aspx?nwID=1336
Two-way Radios for Rural Women in Solomons
Joy Basi; 7/2/08
The Women’s Resource Centres in all the provinces will now be able to communicate with the hand-over of 10 two-way radios. Initiated by the Soroptimist International Solomon Islands, each province will have a Women’s Resource Centre, purposely for rural women to have a place to meet. The two-way radios for the Centres was made possible with the initiative of the Soroptimist International group in Honiara with AusAID through the Community Sector Programme, and funded by the European Union (EU) Micro Project
See: http://solomontimes.com/news.aspx?nwID=1328