THE women of Vunitogoloa Village in Rakiraki are restarting their sea salt-making business three years after it stopped.
With funding from the Pan Pacific Southeast Asia Women’s Association, the women are getting a new hall built that was destroyed during Severe Tropical Cyclone Winston in 2016.
“We already have the ponds and the machines and we need the hall to store and skim off the salt crystals that we will collect,” said Litiana Navunisina.
“This is the best organic type of salt.”
Pan Pacific Southeast Asia Women’s Association Lautoka branch has allocated about $25,000 towards the construction of the hall.
“This is all about women empowerment and we are glad that to support these women to restart their salt-making business,” said president Titilia Vuataki.
“We will also assist the women to package and find markets for their sea salt once they start production,” she added.
