The result of high cost of living?

Workshops been organised as a result of the high cost of living, the Social Welfare has done alot for the women and men of Fiji in order to curb unemployment, crime, and poverty.
We should be grateful to the Minister and Permanent Secretary not to mention the hardworking staff behind the scene for the many projects and workshops done to help the people of Fiji.

Women from all the provinces have been trained, since the military government came into power. Skills such as operating their own poultry farms, sewing cloathes and given a community sewing machine to help them start a sewing business, I remember a quote that the Minister made during the launch of the first batch of sewing machines to arrive in our country from China.

"Women should learn to sew their own families clothes because the times are hard and the ready made clothes is expensive," she said

In an article from the Fiji Times of Saturday the 29th of October, 2011, a memorandum of understanding (MOU) was signed between the Social Welfare Ministry and Indonesia'a Ministry of Women Empowerment and Child Protection.

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A group of women from the Newtown Estate Community Hall received, four new electrical sewing machines from the Minister after they have completed their workshop on sewing.

The MOU was agreed after a meeting in Jakarta between the Minister for Women, Social Welfare and Poverty Alleviation Dr. Jiko Luveni, and her Indonesian counterpart Linda Amaria Sari.
The issues include governement policies on women empowerment, gender mainstreaming in governement ministries, household economy, and Indonesia's task force on women and children trafficking

I think everybody should go through the process of financial literacy so that we can know how to manage our money during this difficult times.
Through my observance I have found some families they want to spend all their money on food and don't care about the house they live in and life's necessities, speciall y now when we are approaching another festive season, we should think ahead and learn to how budget our money because just around the corner is back to school season.

In another article from the Fiji Times of Saturday, a group of primary school teachers from Drasa Avenue School and Jasper Williams Primary School went through professional development training on personal money managment and investment at Lautoka.

The workshop was conducted by the Financial Education (FinEd) Champion Teachers Emma Brook and Sarah Qiokata.
Teachers are trained in the use financial eduaction student resources and teaching and assessment materials within the class 3 and class 4 carricular

Due to the high cost of living former journalist, and FBC's news director Stanley Simpson has looked for greener pastures that pay more to satisfy his families necessities probably, he is now a public affairs and communications manager with Namosi Joint Venture Exploration Team.

Announcing Mr. Simpson's appointment, Project Director Ian Richie said the Public Affairs and Communication role was important to the project as it moved into a much more consultative phase

From my experience going to a party where you rub shoulders with the top people, business houses that provide their service have limited their supply of food because they cannot afford to waste another dollar.
They prepare food according to the number of guests and dishes, no extra like before in 2003-2005 when waitresses who are hired to serve food on these special occassions, take home a big amount of untouched food.

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