Islanders’ Home Science Course

Press, Volume CX, Issue 32393, 4 September 1970, Page 3

Islanders’ Home Science Course

Three girls from the Pacific Islands are being sponsored by the Soroptimist Clubs of Australia and New Zealand to attend a modified home science course in Fiji. The nine-month course, which started in January, is being held at the South Pacific Commission CommunityEducation Training Centre in Suva. The three girls come from islands many miles apart. Evisi V. Jino lives on New Georgia, an island in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate. She received education equivalent to form two level and was active in sports, particularly basketball at school. She has seven brothers and two sisters. The girl from Tonga is Alisi Mali who lives on Nuku’alofa Island where she was educated, and passed the Higher Leaving Examination in 1968. Her favourite hobbies are tennis, volleyball and basketball and for the last two years has been an extension instruc-. tor with the Agricultural Department, one of the first women to be employed in this position. There are six children in her family, three boys and three girls. One of the sponsored women is married with eight children. She is Lote Naseri who comes from Apia, Western Samoa, where her husband works as a doctor in the main hosoital.

She is a domestic science 'teacher with the local Government education departintent In letters sent to their sponsors the three young women all expressed the view that they hoped to learn a great deal in the course that would make them more useful to their fellow islanders. The picture shows Evisi V. Jino (left) and Alisi Mafi. two recipients of the sponsor scheme.