Page 10 - Bulletin #67 - November 2020

Resupplying evacuation centers and villages after the cyclone 10

Things are truly looking up. Knowing that our buildings won’t come down in future
cyclones has given energy to all of us. Now our long-term members are motivated without
my urging, wanting to go back to rebuild their own homes just as I have done. Simeli is
sleeping in the Vale ni Lage Sere (the Singing Cottage) these nights, studying the design to
improve on it so he can build a home for his parents. Then he plans to build himself, his
wife, and his son a permanent home where they can again live in peace and
harmony...without cars, roads, or noise; with just the plantation, food forest, and farm
animals to manage as we joyfully sing our favorite songs again.

We are still picking up the pieces of our loss, but now there is no stopping us. Friends are
planning to visit and help. It’s a new beginning, pregnant with possibility and
opportunity.

We will export this building method throughout Fiji; the Ministry of Women, Children,
and Poverty Alleviation, as well as the Ministries of Education and Native Affairs, support
our mission to train builders to build Resource Centres for the nation. Then it will be
onto other island nations on the frontlines of climate change.

More than just picking up the pieces, we have been requested by the highest levels of
government on a mission to sustainably build Fiji for the future, without imported
concrete blocks or the destruction of pine forests. We are using good old Mother Earth in