Close to 300 people in the district of Noimalu in Naitasiri have worked together to construct their own road by using spades and forks to work through an 8 mile road.
Noimalu is the last district in Naitasiri located at the border of Naitasiri and Namosi.
Six villages are part of this district including about 4,000 people and it takes about 3 and a half hours to walk from the main road to the last village, Tubarua.
Speaking to Fijivillage this morning, Noimalu District representative Eneriko Tuimatau says this has been their biggest challenge in the past years but they have overcome it.
Tuimata believes that they cannot rely on the government for everything and they need to help themselves first.
He says that the normal route to reach the first village which is Korovou is to get off at Sawanikula village, cross the Wainimala River and walk for about three hours or take a horse ride.
The 45-year-old says that they are about to complete the construction of a bamboo raft that can carry a five tonne truck across from Sawanikula to their new road.
Yesterday they managed to put a four wheel drive onto a big raft, went across the river and then went through the new road.
The villages in Noimalu district include Korovou, Narokorokoyawa, Matawailevu, Nasava, Nasauvere and Tubarua.
