Bula and welcome to our first Blog! Four hours until Emma and the girls head off to the airport en route to Nadi, Fiji for a week. Our tasks - to develop some local partnerships, create a relationship with a suitable school with a desire and need to be part of our project, and to make arrangements for in-country accommodation, travel, tools and materials.
We fly through the night and will spend Sunday doing what nearly everyone else in Fiji does on Sundays - not much at all! We are very much looking forward to landing in the rain as we haven't seen much of it here in Melbourne for a while, and it will actually be cooler in Nadi than Melbourne as we sit through day six of a 9 day heatwave. For weather updates in Fiji visit Na Draki Weather in Fiji .
John has been busy researching options for sturdy play equipment made from simple materials - timber, rope, tyres, inner-tubes. We are thinking we might do a team building exercise at home with the team to construct a prototype....pretty sure the kids will be happy with that idea.
Emma is meeting with a potential partner organisation first thing Monday morning and they are very excited about our ideas. They already work with a few schools and have some ideas and we will be guided by their advice. The plan is to engage the school community in discussing and developing ideas for their play space - then over to the design team (John) to work out how to deliver an outcome that suits in the given timeframe with the available resources. We hope to engage staff, students, school families in construction of the play space as well.
Watch this space for updates over the next week - hopefully I will work out how to include photos as well.
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