Fiji Voluntourism Program

You will be met at the Airport by a Goway Travel Ltd Representative and Transferred to your selected accommodation. Upon arrival, you receive a welcome drink and a thorough project briefing. The rest of the day is yours to enjoy your tropical paradise. BLD

Suggested Hotel: Mercure or Novotel Nadi (4 nights)

For the next two days, you will have round trip transfers traveling to a small village where you will assist in building homes for the less fortunate.

Included are project materials, daily homemade lunch, Fiji water bottles, and First Air Kits. Depart Hotel:0830 / Returns: 1630 daily.

The programme is now in its third year and was devised at the request of students wanting a more meaningful way to celebrate the end of secondary schooling than partying. BLD

The Objectives

To build homes for the less fortunate, and to make a difference.

The story of Koroipita Model TownKoroipita Model Town provides a secure place to live for families that have come from a wide range of impoverished housing situations. Some have been evicted from their house, others simply cannot keep up with increasing rental costs, some have been abandoned by family members or have lost their previous home to cyclone or flood.

Building Homes

Each Koroipita Project is situated on a 350-400sq m lot. Each lot includes a single-room home, a separate toilet, a shower kitchen unit and a cookhouse for cooking meals with an open fire. The families are encouraged to use their lot to become self-sufficient in growing their own green and root vegetables. Each 
family pays $7 a week in town fees. This money goes towards the cost of the native land lease, water supply, the removal of garbage, pumping out septic tanks, a nightly security patrol, a kindergarten teacher’s salary and general town maintenance.

Rebuilding Lives

Koroipita provides homes for people, but it also helps to rebuild lives. Families who move to Koroipita have access to a range of services, programs and activities that can help improve their life skills, income and education opportunities. Not only do they have a home, but they also have a chance to break the poverty cycle for themselves and their children. As a community, the end goal for Koroipita is to function independently as a sustainable town. More than 1100 volunteers have worked on the project and have made a difference in Fiji

You can enjoy your well earned rest and relaxation at the resort or enjoy an optional Day tour of Fiji or Half Day cruise from Port Denarau. BLD

This morning after breakfast you will go to a local orphanage where you will get to sit and talk with the children. Later today you will transfer to Tambua Sands. Enjoy a welcome drink on arrival and a free evening. BLD

Suggested Hotel: Coral Coast Hotel. (2 nights)

Either enjoy your resort today or optional Adventures in Paradise Full Day Cave Tour or Waterfall Tour. BLD

After breakfast today enjoy a full day of touring including a visit to a local school, Sand Dunes (one of Fiji’s heritage sites) Kula Eco Park the environmental showplace of the South Pacific and Fiji’s center for the captive breeding of endangered species & the environmental education of school children. Next is lunch at Gecko’s then visit the Kalevu Cultural center (pictured below), a traditional Fijian Village where one learns Fijian History, their tradition and culture. Then to Lawai Village, here you will see the making of pottery. After transfer to your hotel for check-in. BLD

Suggested hotel: Nadi Bay Resort (2 nights)

Another full-day trip included a courtesy call to a local school and a tour of the Town - Nadi was a Sugar Town that gradually underwent a transition to be a tourism-oriented town after Nadi Airport was declared the first International Airport. Stop for lunch, then on to Vuda, the site of Fiji’s first village. It is here that the first human inhabitants settled the Fiji Islands, fabled to have arrived from the East African coast in the country now known as Tanganyika. Take some lovely photos at a Vuda lookout, then to the Garden of Sleeping Giants. BLD

Nadi is a culturally diverse city of 30,000. Nadi Beach is a wide strand, perfect for lazing in the sun and watching sunsets. Nearby Natadola Beach is Fiji’s most spectacular and is popular for swimming and body surfing. Places to visit in Nadi include Sri Siva Subramaniya, the largest Hindu temple in the Southern hemisphere and the Waqadra Botanical Gardens.

Transfer from Hotel to Airport for departure home. BLD