Nativi Village in Ra has a new dispensary building, thanks to the Think Pacific Foundation. Twenty-two students from various universities in the United Kingdom built the dispensary that will benefit about one hundred villagers.
Deputy British High Commissioner to Fiji Paul Welsh was the chief guest at the opening of the dispensary on Friday.
“I expressed my pride in the British students,” he said. “They had opened their minds and their hearts to come and spend time on the other side of the world.
“I hoped that they had seen Fiji through Fijian eyes and that they had built, not just a dispensary, but lifelong friendships.
“The meeting of young people with such a community spirit like them reassured me that our future was in good hands.
“In many ways, they were doing my work for me – enhancing people-to-people links between our two countries.”
The UK government provides funding to British students to be part of Think Pacific through its Turing Scheme.
