New Zealand and Fiji Rotary Clubs provides 28,000 face masks for Fijians while 53,000 masks expected to arrive next month
New Zealand and Fiji Rotary Clubs provides 28,000 face masks for Fijians while 53,000 masks expected to arrive next month
[Photo: Rotary Suva East]
28,000 face masks are being distributed to communities throughout Fiji through the combined efforts of Rotary Clubs in New Zealand and Fiji.
The Club says the face masks were donated to a Rotary District in New Zealand by air filter company, Lanaco and were shipped to Fiji through the financial support of the Rotary Club of Awapuni in New Zealand, and three Rotary Clubs in Fiji.
2 March, 2021, 7:15 pm
Participants at the Training of Trainers (ToT) RBF and PFIP Financial Literacy COVID-19 Economic Response workshop at the Reserve Bank of Fiji yesterday.
Picture: MONIKA SINGH
THERE is a need to encourage more Fijians to manage whatever limited funds they have, especially during this COVID-19 pandemic situation.
With this objective in mind, the Reserve Bank of Fiji and ANZ with support from the Pacific Financial Inclusion Programme, a training of trainers workshop kickstarted yesterday to train government and community influencers, who would be able to go back to their communities and educate their peers on the objective.
RBF chief manager financial system development, Poasa Werekoro said the recent coronavirus pandemic had taught many valuable lessons.
1 March, 2021, 1:30 pm
ANZ Regional Executive Tessa Price, second left, ANZ chief executive officer Saud Minam, Reserve Bank of Fiji governor Faizul Ariff Ali and RMIT University researcher Marica Tabualevu, third from right, with ANZ staff members during the 2019 Moneyminded Impact Report launch at the ANZ House in Suva on Tuesday, October 08, 2019. Picture: JONACANI LALAKOBAU
A training of trainers workshop will see participants build up on their financial education as part of a wider COVID-19 economic response financial literacy outreach campaign.
About 32 participants will go through the ANZ Bank’s MoneyMinded program and upon completion of the program, assist the Reserve Bank of Fiji in raising greater awareness and education on financial literacy.