A Lot Need Immediate Assistance

Visiting villages hardest hit by the flash flooding in the Western Division, the Communications Fiji Limited team say there have been alot of people affected who are in need of immediate assistance.Visiting villages hardest hit by the flash flooding in the Western Division, the Communications Fiji Limited team say there have been alot of people affected who are in need of immediate assistance.Our News Director Vijay Narayan with this report from Vuniyasi Koromakawa where an organisation is distributing food to affected victims.Narayan with this report from Sikituru Village in the interior of Nadi, past the Narewa village.Earlier today in Navakai, our News Director had also spoke to 12yr old Sohab Ali, whose family has been left with nothing and no assistance has arrived as yet.Narayan said the family told them that they were the first people to visit them since the floods and were in tears with all their belongings and home damaged and having to live on about one meal a day.Sohab Ali said he is praying that some assistance comes so he can go to school. Narayan had also spoken to a Nakavu village resident and here is what she had to say about the difficulties they are facing after the floods.Fantasy Company of Fiji Limited on Fantasy Rd in Nadi, one of the areas affected, is urging people to help where they can and to realise that children need help with school to start next week.Executive Director, Abbas Ali calls on those who can afford to come forward and donate whatever they can.More than $30,000 has been raised so far for the Get the Children Back to School Appeal, which started at mid day yesterday. The appeal organised by Communications Fiji Limited radio stations, Fijivillage and sister stations along with our website fijivillage.com is aimed at ensuring that funds are raised to help children go back to school when the new school term starts next Monday.All the cash donations collected for the children will be handed over to Save the Children Fund to assist the children with their school fees and daily bus fare and lunch.Save the Children Fund's Chief Executive, Chandra Shekhar said they have the mechanisms in place to administer the relief efforts using the same model used to assist children in Vatukoula to provide fees, lunch money and bus fares.Donations are pouring in from as far as England to help children like Sohab Ali and Shilam Devi through the appeal to Get the Children back to school in the worst flood affected areas which currently stands at over $20,000 since the appeal started at midday yesterday. Individuals like Josaia Naigulevu and his family donated $2,500 from their pocket to assist these children get back to school.Vodafone Fiji Limited this morning gave out a generous some of $10,000 to the appeal.An England School teacher Brenda Yates, through her brother David Dean who resides in Suva, gave cash for the appeal to help out. Dean who dropped the donation off said the concept and initiative of helping school children on the eve of the First School Term starting is a good one adding people who donate should think about where their money can do good and be sure that it gets to those that need help.For those who want to donate cash now to help the children go back to school, you can come here to the home of Fijivillage at 231 Waimanu Road, our Lautoka office at the Sugar Cane Growers Council building and our Labasa office located at 10 Rosawa Street. You can also deposit your donations to the CFL Appeal Account at Westpac, account number 9800-935-794.