Introduction

This is the site of a community group called the 'Raiwai Think Tank'. We are a community based in semi-urban Suva, the capital of Fiji. Although Raiwai has since the 1980s been associated with low income housing project and an area of high crime, we are steadily (if slowly) beginning to change this perception.

Our slogan is 'Matua Edai'. Which roughly translated means 'to become mature quickly'. That is because we are interested in the idea of 'learning how to fish', rather than being 'given fish' – to borrow loosely from the famous phraseology.


Transforming Raiwai into a healthy happy community.