What gifts / donations to bring to Vorovoro

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Adam Carter By Atama, NSW, Australia Posted 15 Mar 2008

Mali School:

- English dictionaries
- Atlas’s
- Solar Lights
- Any informative Posters
- Full netball and/or Football kit
- Eco cloth bags
- Stationery (Colouring pencils, exercise books, paper etc.)
- Sports equipment (Any kind of ball … Volley balls, Netballs, football balls, rugby balls, soft balls)
- Acoustic instruments (Fijian children love to sing and any unwanted musical instruments would be a welcome addition to the school)
- Educational or story books
- No more Harry Potter, please! (Dumbeldore is alive and well in the library of the Mali Elementary School, where his memory lives in more than a half dozen copies of each volume of Harry Potter. So please, no more Harry Potter!)

Vorovoro village:


For the island:

- Acoustic guitar strings (what can we say – the guitars on Vorovoro are used quite heavily and the strings do tend to break pretty regularly)
- Basic snorkeling equipment (reef trips are a regular ocurrance on Vorovoro and while a few tribe members have donated their snorkels, masks, and flippers to the island when they left, we can always do with more snorkeling gear)
- Environmental books
- Eco washing products (shampoo, conditioner, body wash) for tribal use
- AAA Rechargeable batteries for Team Fiji
- Rechargeable battery solar charger (for all sized batteries)
- Volley ball and ping pong balls
- Games
- Clippers (for shaving and haircuts)
- Second hand mobile phones (chipped)
- Spare laptops for island use
- Biodegradable Hand wash or sanitizer (trying to be as hygienic as possible but environmentally friendly too!)
- 20m extension chord for movie nights in Grand Bure
- Electricity meter to accurate measure electricity usage on Vorovoro

For the tool shed:

- Paint brushes of different sizes
- Paint
- Chisels
- Any tools
- Sandpaper
- Cordless power tools

For the kitchen:

- Eco washing up liquid
- Teaspoons are always useful!
- Tea towels
- Cutting boards
- Eco cloth bags

For the first aid kit:

- Plenty of Band aids and plasters
- Alcohol wipes
- Antiseptic cream
- Bandages

For the Hammock Society

- Biodegradable water bombs
- Super Soakers

If you have any suggestions, please post them here and we will endeavour to add them to this list as soon as possible

Last updated 9 October 2008

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