Family Support Centre (FSC) stands in solidarity with those who have condemned the recent rape and murder of 8 year old Mary in Kolombangara. As a key service provider for survivors of domestic violence, rape or sexual abuse, the Family Support Centre knows what this child experienced, her last moments of fear and violence that…
Solomon Islands Women in Business Association (SIWIBA) is so grateful to the Australian High Commission Office through DFAT for funding some areas of the organization after 3 years break. In statement, Wednesday, issued by SIWIBA News Desk said, this time around the funding is specific to specific areas. “The two main areas targeted is SIWIBA’s…
SOLOMON Islands very own social entrepreneur and communications designer, Millicent Barty has been announced as an Obama Foundation Scholar, in a statement on Wednesday. She is among the fourth cohort of Obama Scholars who joins two groups of 12 emerging leaders from around the world to study at Columbia University and the University of Chicago,…
A WOMEN’s council had been formed in ward 15, eastern region of Malaita Province last week. The establishment of the women’s body was hailed as a history for women in that region to finally register its own council and become a member of Malaita Provincial Council of Women. The new set up was also described…
IMPROVING the economic status of women in the country is a policy priority of the government. This was according to Minister for the Ministry of Women, Youth, Children and Family Affairs (MWYCFA), Freda Rangirei during the Australian Government’s partnership with Solomon Islands Women in Business Association (SIWIBA) through Women’s Economic Empowerment in a Business Networking…
PEOPLE with Disability Solomon Islands (PWDSI) together with Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) had facilitated a three days training on Gender equality and Human rights focused on (Convention on the Rights of People with Disability) CRPD and women leadership training for women and girls with disability. The training which kicked off on the…
THE Malaita Provincial Council of Women constitution has undergone a review to its constitution, in the past two days. Stakeholders gathered at the Women Resource Centre in Auki for the past two days purposely to review the constitution with the aim to amend the constitution soon. The review ended on Friday afternoon. Speaking to this…
MOTHERS union members from the Saint Luke Church-Kia Parish Diocese of Isabel and Saint Barnabas Provincial Cathedral of the Anglican Church of Melanesian has benefited from the CSSI and RSIPF joint educational awareness talk, facilitated by CSSI Commissioner Gabriel Manelusi and Sgt Robert Malo of the National Crime Prevention Department of the RSIPF at the…
A NEWLY established group known as Sepi Women Inshore Fisheries Initiative that engages women in the Fisheries Sector has been established last month. The Sepi women Inshore Fisheries Initiative comprises of 20 members from the Sepi Village, West Bugotu, Santa Ysabel. This newly formed organisation is aimed at engaging in the fisheries sector – To…
BEING an unemployed and house wife is always a very difficult and challenging task just to keep a family alive by finding means to survive the next day. Meet Julie Ben Korini, who is one amongst many mothers who are self-employed. For many years she was able to find ways to support her small family…