Stirring up the dust Tutu ana te puehu 8 Rural Training Centres across Solomon Islands will benefit from the programme 150+ Instructors and administrators upskilled 12 Years of partnership between Caritas and Solomon Islands $70,000 Raised by young people during the Caritas Challenge for the Solomons For more information on Caritas’ work in the Solomons, visit caritas.org.nz/where- we-work/pacific/ solomon-islands $ SOLOMON ISLANDS Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand has a close partnership with Solomon Islands. Since 2012 we have widened the scope of our work there to include development as well as relief work. This year we began a new five-year programme to strengthen Rural Training Centres (RTCs) in partnership with the New Zealand Aid Programme, which is contributing $4 for every $1 provided by Caritas. RTCs are vocational training centres that provide skills for young people to earn a living in a country with high youth unemployment and a fast growing young population. The Strengthening Technical and Agricultural Rural Training (START) programme is the first of its kind for us. It goes beyond the provision of funds, to sharing knowledge and experience in technical and agricultural areas in which New Zealand has significant expertise. The main goals of the START programme are to: • Upskill instructors in the fields of agriculture, mechanics and carpentry • Deliver management and administration training courses for RTC administrators • Improve RTC workshops and purchase equipment • Run adult numeracy and budgeting training courses for RTC staff and local community members • Conduct research on the linkages between RTCs, the community and the local economy ISSUE 34 Left: Teacher (right) and student at a Salesian run RTC outside Honoria. Adrian Heke Adrian Heke
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Stirring up the dustTutu ana te puehu
8Rural Training Centres across Solomon Islands will benefit from the programme 150+ Instructors and administrators upskilled 12 Years of partnership between Caritas and Solomon Islands
$70,000 Raised by young people during the Caritas Challenge for the Solomons
For more information on Caritas’ work in the Solomons, visit caritas.org.nz/where-we-work/pacific/solomon-islands
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SOLOMON ISLANDSCaritas Aotearoa New Zealand has a close partnership with Solomon Islands. Since 2012 we have widened the scope of our work there to include development as well as relief work. This year we began a new five-year programme to strengthen Rural Training Centres (RTCs) in partnership with the New Zealand Aid Programme, which is contributing $4 for every $1 provided by Caritas. RTCs are vocational training centres that provide skills for young people to earn a living in a country with high youth unemployment and a fast growing young population.
The Strengthening Technical and Agricultural Rural Training (START) programme is the first of its kind for us. It goes beyond the provision of funds, to sharing knowledge and experience in technical and agricultural areas in which New Zealand has significant expertise.
The main goals of the START programme are to:
• Upskill instructors in the fields of agriculture, mechanics and carpentry• Deliver management and administration training courses for RTC administrators• Improve RTC workshops and purchase equipment • Run adult numeracy and budgeting training courses for RTC staff and local
community members• Conduct research on the linkages between RTCs, the community and the
local economy
ISSUE 34
Left: Teacher (right) and student at a Salesian run RTC outside Honoria.Ad
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ISSN: 2230-6617 (print) 2230-6625 (online)
Charities No: CC36055
OUR PARTNERS Our main Solomon Island partner is the Solomon Islands Association of Vocational and Rural Training Centres (SIAVRTC). Caritas’ New Zealand partners are The Learn.Fast Centre, Taratahi Agricultural Training Centre, Waikato Institute of Technology (WINTEC) and the Salvation Army New Zealand, who will deliver training to instructors and administrators in the Solomons. Selected Solomon Island agriculture instructors will also complete training here in New Zealand. Chris Elphick of Learn.Fast says, “What we bring to the programme is following up the training by matching the skills learnt in the RTCs to livelihood opportunities in the community and business sector, whether that be jobs or business creation.” START is a cross-sector collaboration between the education, not for profit, for profit and government sectors.
The Caritas Challenge, our annual youth solidarity event, raised $70,000 for programmes in the Solomons. Funds raised also contributed towards the recovery following extreme flooding in Honiara in March.
VATU RURAL TRAINING CENTREBilly Mae Director of SIAVRTC and Stephen Hannam of Taratahi Agricultural Training Centre (pictured above left) tuck into a delicious spread made entirely from food grown at the Vatu RTC in the island province of Guadalcanal. The centre has 70 students and grows coconuts, cacao, bananas, kumara, greens and watermelon amongst other crops. Students and staff live at the centre which is self sufficient for food. James Manegelea (above right) is the Principal of Vatu RTC. He will participate in the leadership training provided to key staff from eight RTCs included in the START Programme. The training will strengthen the administration, management and sustainability of the RTCs. Training will also help Vatu improve their garden to market process so that they can more effectively market and sell their produce, increasing their ability to generate income.
Your commitment as a One World Partner enables us to work in the Solomons. Thank you for your ongoing support.
Top: The Bishop of Gizo, Luciano Capelli SDB visited WINTEC while he was in New Zealand in May.
Bottom: Agriculture students at the St Dominic’s RTC, Vanga Point.
CARITAS’ WORK IN THE SOLOMONS
AUKI Water distribution system improved
GIZOKindergarten teacher training
ARULIGOTraining teachers of the deaf
HONIARA Flood relief in 2014
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