SHE's delivered babies in emergency situations and saved many lives. All in her spare time.
This is how Keba Dranivasa likes it best — helping people whenever and wherever she can.
The mother from Ketei Village in Totoya, Lau, does all this free of charge.
Having volunteered since Class Four with St John Ambulance, Mrs Dranivasa can't imagine life any other way.
She has been volunteering for the past 35 years.
"My family was very supportive of me being a volunteer," she recalled.
"We were given little allowance for bus fare and bread and butter for lunch while working as a volunteer," she said.
They got by on her husband's wages. He was a soldier serving the UN peacekeeping missions.
"We managed to educate our children and build a house with his pay," she said.
"I always told my kids to accept whatever I could get for them and I always made sure that my children had cassava to eat and tea to drink."
Her ambition was to be a nurse. At 17 years old she joined the Fiji Nursing School but two years into her studies she withdrew to care for her ailing father.
She said she could not see her mother working while struggling to look after her sick father.
Fast-forward two decades later and she is doing exactly what she wanted to do, and even more in a sense. She has set up a Kemzy Medics Centre at her Colo-i-Suva home from where she offers First Aid services for free.
"Some of the communities can not afford the charges of St John (Ambulance) so when they asked me to do the service and I accepted it," she said.
She has 10 unemployed youths in her area whom she has trained to help her with the services.
She even teaches First Aid to those interested.
"Some of the PEMAC teachers in some schools, who are also interested come around, and I provide training for them.
"I have my own equipment, first aid kit and ice kit that my husband and son bought when they went for United Nations peacekeeping duties."
She says starting her own company was a good thing because she is now able to teach whatever she learnt to the youths.
"Some of them are very weak in theory but very talented in practical," she said.
"While doing field work field, I explain to them what kind of injuries need what kind of treatment and when to refer the case to the hospital and I always tell them not to delay any serious cases."
Last month she delivered a baby in Colo-i-Suva. The family has named the child after her.
"I also saved two children from drowning when I was 17 years old. I had gone to look for my brother who had gone swimming and saw a hand in the water," she said.
She has also delivered babies, one in a taxi and one in front of a village latrine. She has two children and four grand children.
She is employed as a field co-ordinator for the National Disaster Management office.
Ms Dranivasa has been awarded a Serving Sisters Medal for her long and dedicated service to St John Ambulance.
