Our Disadvantaged People In Fiji Need
Hope, Love, and Service More Than Ever
In times of difficulty, your gift helps create a path for the poor and impoverished, economically disadvantaged, and afflicted. With deep respect for life, let’s make the future hopeful for every person we reach.
HOPE — LOVE — SERVICE
FijiLIFE is acting with compassion and fairness for a just, sustainable, fair, and impartial world where all Fijians can participate and prosper.
Meeting the needs of people today and in the future, while sustaining life support systems of the planet, requires humans to learn to live within our means.
As we step from the edge of morning, feet can’t tell where to take us…
Food and fuel costs have continued to rise. There is a cavalcade of fear and anxiety for what is ahead.
Right now, some of us are fearful. Some of us have been hurt by loss of living standards. Some of us are angry and have spoken words that attack others.
It’s a difficult time for people everywhere, and particularly if you are poor, disadvantaged, or needy in Fiji as we seek to walk together in upholding those less fortunate than ourselves.
We recall the days of peace and harmony in Fiji when there was enough to go around for all.
We struggle with the challenge of being Fijian in the modern world and what that challenge should look like.
Fear is everywhere, whether it’s about news items of war, finance, declining living standards, or the weather. The word that appears in all of them is the word “fear”.
We should not pretend things are well when they’re not. Being broken is not necessarily so bad but being broken and pretending we are not, is a recipe for disaster and mutual damage.
Our poor, disadvantaged, and needy people in Fiji are neither not to be ignored nor always overcome, but they can be helped and supported by hope, love, and service provided by FijiLIFE.
Hope is not simply being positive or wishful thinking. For many of us we can step into each day, trusting in God’s word and promise. This is hopeful faithful living.
“Hope opens new horizons, making us capable of dreaming what is not even imaginable.”
— Pope Francis 1836-2025
For others hope is about our feelings of expectation and desire for positive outcomes – having goal-oriented thoughts and developing strategies to achieve them.
Love can be about the message of Easter where Jesus died for others to bring them into a life of hope. Love helps relieve any unnecessary suffering, being forgiving, gracious, and compassionate.
Service is about our actions of helping, doing work for, or aiding others. Doing the best we can to make a difference through the service one gives to others. Service may be through gifts of money, physical help or making time to listen to others and their issues.
FijiLIFE Foundation is committed to working with registered charities and others in Fiji to help transform the lives of individuals and families and create lasting change providing hope, love, and service for poor and impoverished, economically disadvantaged, afflicted, and needful people in Fiji.
We welcome your support.
Your gift multiplies in impact to bring free life-changing education and improved
healthcare and social support to Fiji’s forgotten poor.
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Gifts received… A$9,114 Raised
From Members of
FijiLIFE Connect Facebook Group
Prior to the formation of the FijiLIFE Foundation Limited charity on 13 August, 2021 our initial project was to facilitate the forwarding of donations totalling $A9,114 (F$13,890) received from FijiLIFE Connect Facebook Group Members to four Registered Charities in Fiji to assist them to support Fijians experiencing food shortages and to meet other urgent needs due to Covid. These gifts were received from 27 members in lieu of refunds for our cancelled Gold Coast Turf Club Luncheon and Picnic In The Park events in October 2021 due to Covid.
Better is coming…
Better Living — Better Life
FijiLIFE Foundation is an Australian DGR Registered Charity that deploys funds and services to frontline organisations in Fiji – improving the quality of life for people living with poverty, disadvantage, or disability, and the aged and infirm, through educational, social, and medical care and building individual capacity in local communities to meet the needs of the future.
Reaching Those In Need
The Fiji Bureau of Statistics (FBS) preliminary report on the 2019-2020 Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) estimated 29.9% of the population or 258,053 people (45,724 households) were living in poverty.
We're Building Ongoing Support
Completed project applications for support and/or funding will be assessed by FijiLIFE Directors and managed through a nominated Fiji charity, that will report on results achieved and ongoing support.
Creating Lasting Change
Change is a process, not an event. Growth usually requires change. When we talk about creating lasting change, we mean establishing new actions that will be possible across many different contexts.
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Lives Changed
Most Likely To Succeed
Rynal (15) and Ritesh (11) Kumar are brothers residing in Nadi. In 2021, their mother passed away due to breast cancer. Their father, Pravin Kumar (53), left his work place to care for his disabled sons fulltime. With no source of income, they now rely on Social Welfare monthly Disability Allowance and donations or gifts in kind. Both boys are on diapers and require assistance of someone 24/7. Pravin says, “lifting my sons and being a sole caregiver, has now been very hard for me. The boys are now grown up and have put on weight”. Their their new wheelchair accessible bathroom and toilet were provided by Viti Spinal Injuries Association of Fiji.
About FijiLIFE Foundation
FAMILY WELFARE AND SUPPORT
Strengthen the capacity of vulnerable and poor families to meet basic needs for food, housing, education, and medical care.
Children’s Health and Education
Support childrens’ health care and deliver financial support transforming educational outcomes for disadvantaged students.
Health Care & Disability Aids
Assistive technologies to improve an individual’s functioning and independence to build self-sufficiency in communities.
Community and Environment
Assist communities to gain optimal health and well-being and help develop skills to empower micro-business ownership in Fiji.
We Have the Power to Impact Our Future, and We’re Doing Something About It
Tagimoucia
The Tagimoucia (pronounced tahng-ee-mow-theea) is the official flower of Fiji and what makes it so unique is that it only grows on Taveuni Island and nowhere else in the world!
Legend says that the flowers were the result of the tears shed by a Fijian Princess who ran away into the forests after her father arranged her marriage. It is believed that she fell asleep while crying and her tears turned into the Tagimoucia flower. “Tagi” in the local vernacular means to cry while “moce” means sleep. It can be found flowering between October and January on the shores of the Lake Tagimoucia. People come from all over the world to see this rare and beautiful flower. SOURCE: Lake Tagimoucia & De Voeux Peak
OUR VISION
Better Is Coming… Better Living, Better Life
FijiLIFE inspires self-reliance while building individual capacity in local communities in Fiji.
OUR MISSION
FijiLIFE partners with registered Fiji charities to transform individuals and create lasting change.
Fund Raising
FijiLIFE Foundation is a registered DGR charity in Australia. Donations of $2 and more in Australia are tax-deductible. All funds raised are directed toward specific projects in Fiji through a registered Fijian charity. FAQs about donations.
Beneficiary Stories
These stories show how rewarding it is to work with people in Fiji needing a bit of help in life and how every unique beneficiary gives our journey meaning. Fiji is one of the most beautiful countries on earth and yet the poverty rate estimated at 29.9% of the population is a national crisis. Our people need hope and healing more than ever. The beauty of the tagimoucia inspires our vision for better living better life, providing hope, love, and service to every person we reach.
Project Management
Completed project applications will be assessed by Directors for support and/or funding and managed through the nominated Fiji charity, that will report on results achieved.
Advanced Projects
Large transformational projects will be undertaken in collaboration with the Fijian government, charities, and partners for poor and needy Fijians.
Ongoing Support
Ongoing support for the most needy people in our programs can provide structure and routine, contribute to a sense of purpose, and provide financial security and social connection.
Video Reviews
An exciting way to share results of successful projects — a visual record to the world of what is possible when we put our shoulder to the wheel to solve problems together.
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Definitions of Impoverished People
Poor — (of a person or family) — People lacking sufficient money or no secure income to live at a standard considered comfortable or normal in a society; of a low or inferior standard or quality; “a person or family reduced to poverty that they were too poor to afford regular meals or schooling for their children.”
Disadvantaged — (of a person or area) — People who live in bad conditions or in unfavourable circumstances, especially with regard to financial or social opportunities, and tend not to get a good education or have a reasonable standard of living; “disadvantaged groups such as the unemployed, those living in rural and remote communities, people who are vision impaired, living with disabilities or mental illness, and people who are deprived, impoverished, or discriminated against.”
Needy — (of a person or household) — People lacking the necessities of life, being really, really poor, or poverty-stricken, either from having no money or being in bad health; “a poor person who becomes poorer, needy, elderly, frail, and infirm.”
Better is coming…
Hope, Love & Service
FijiLIFE partners with registered charities in Fiji to transform individuals and create lasting change providing hope, love, and service to the poor, disadvantaged, and needy people of Fiji.
HOPE
— Our feelings of expectation and desire for positive outcomes.
— Having goal-oriented thoughts.
— Developing strategies to achieve goals.
— Being motivated to expend effort to achieve goals.
LOVE
— The feeling we have for others; being deeply committed and connected to others.
— Help relieve any unnecessary suffering, being forgiving, gracious, and merciful.
— We will be a blessing – keep being our best, treating people with respect.
Service
— Our actions of helping, doing work for, or aiding others.
— Life-long dedication and commitment to helping others have better living, better life.
— Doing the best to make a difference through the service we give to others.
Instantly Make A Positive Impact
“Will you join us in making poor, disadvantaged, and needy Fijians life better for today, tomorrow and the future?”
When we give back, we create a ripple effect that goes far beyond those we help.
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Our Top Priorities
Our selfless directors volunteer their time and talent to deliver the highest quality social, medical, educational, psychological, and community care to many in desperate need. Our goal is to develop a pool of very skilled operators who are our own trained residents to help solve the national poverty crisis.
Poverty
Of the total population, the incidence of poverty in rural areas is twice the rate of poverty in urban areas.
Education
Providing educational and related support to children of the poor to enabling them and their families, to get out of the poverty trap.
Community
Providing guidance and support for the advancement of poor families in community.
Health Care
Serving the needy people of Fiji through medical care and assistive technology.
Welfare
Providing medical, food, clothing and counselling support to Fijian families.
Our Fiji Charity Partners
