Stories

Volunteer Service Abroad (VSA) and Live and Learn Environmental Education International have celebrated the signing of a Pacific wide partnership agreement. The partnership will place New Zealand volunteers into Live & Learn’s Pacific programme in Fiji, Vanuatu, Tonga, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, and Kiribati. The partnership has a strong focus on capturing and sharing knowledge and learning across our programmes. 

A first for Vanuatu, owners of Loru Rainforest Carbon Project are amongst 20 indigenous groups internationally to win the Equator Award.

On 28 May over 230 students from Visale, Vaturanga and Tanakuku schools in Solomon Islands joined together to highlight Global Menstrual Hygiene Day, supported by Live & Learn Solomon Islands and Plan International in Solomon Islands.

May 28 is international Menstrual Hygiene Day. Adolescent girls and women throughout the world face many challenges in managing their menstruation effectively and with dignity.  A recently completed baseline report discussed menstrual hygiene management with women in Solomon Islands, with 63% of women saying they often don't have enough money to purchase sanitary pads.

On 20 April 2019 Live and Learn Environmental Education released the Via River Catchment Fire Management Plan, which identifies strategies to reduce the impact of wildfires on biodiversity and community resources in Central West New Britain, Papua New Guinea. The strategies will be adapted and used throughout PNG to address the threat of wildfires that are being exacerbated by climate change. 

During February 2019 Lee Barrett & Angus McPherson from Schneider Electric visited New Ireland, PNG, to assist our local Live & Learn team in establishing the ‘New Ireland Access to Energy Program’. The Schneider Foundation / Live & Learn partnership will deliver low maintenance energy systems to schools and health facilities, improving the lives of marginalised groups in rural
 New Ireland Province

Glarinda Andre from Live & Learn Vanuatu joined with students, faculty and film-makers from the Western Sydney University School of Humanities and Communications Arts for the debut screening of two short films made by students at the university Documentary Media Day.

Carnival Cruises and P&O Cruises has announced a partnership with Live & Learn Environmental Education to deliver Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) in schools to improving both health and education in Vanuatu.

Live & Learn Vanuatu is implementing a new project with support from Conservation International Foundation to protect biodiversity in Vanuatu. The project will strengthen local community governance capacity to manage threatened species within the key biodiversity areas of Santo Mountains, Gaua and Malekula in Vanuatu.

Live & Learn PNG in Kavieng, New Ireland Province, have extended the reach of Sanitation Marketing to more communities, with activities commencing in Fatmilak Village in Tikana Local Level Government area. Using the sanitation marketing model established through the Australian government Civil Society Organisation, Live & Learn PNG have helped set up the management of a Community-Based Sanitation Enterprise in Fatmilak Village and trained community youth on toilet construction and environmental protection.