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Forbes: Canceled Your Vacation? Buy Your Souvenirs, Anyway

Rise Beyond the Reef featured in Forbes, July 26, 2020. Read the Article on Forbes.com

TEDx Suva 2019

Rise Beyond the Reef Co-Founder Semi Latowa featured in TEDx Suva. TEDxSuva is about bringing real ideas, innovations, and science from the Pacif...

Promising Practices from the Fiji in Empowering Women Economically

This paper is jointly authored by eight women who work with the Fiji Women’s Fund and three of the Fund’s partner organisations – Talanoa Treks, ...

Promising Practices in Preventing and Eliminating Violence Against Women and Girls in Fiji

Violence against women and girls is a serious problem in Fiji. Women and girls in Fiji face approximately twice the violent incidents in their li...

Fiji Sun: Bid To Spread Fiji’s Tourism Dollar

Rise Beyond the Reef featured in the Fiji Sun. Pacific Destinations Fiji continues to spread the tourism dollar further to the local communities...

The Fiji Times: $1.9m for women

Rise Beyond the Reef featured in The Fiji Times, March 13, 2018. A TOTAL of $1.9 million in funding has been committed towards 14 diverse women’s...

UNDP Pacific Office in Fiji: Rural Women Help Early Recovery Efforts in Fiji...

Yakete, Ba Province, Fiji: When an extreme weather event such as Sever Tropical Cyclone Winston hits communities in remote, almost intractable hi...

ReliefWeb: Rural Women Help Early Recovery Efforts in Fiji, Make and Sell 'Green' Handicrafts

Rise Beyond the Reef featured in ReliefWeb, June 17, 2016. Read the Article on reliefweb.com

Fiji Sun: Linking Women To The Business World

Empowering women in rural and remote communities is the core function of a local organisation – Rise Beyond the Reef. In partnership with Westpac...

The Huffington Post: Global Innovation — This Week in Daily Giving

Janet Lotawa and the organization Rise Beyond the Reef specialize in understanding the needs of remote communities and the impact of climate change...

Fiji Sun: Learning Centre For Navilawa

Rise Beyond the Reef featured in Fiji Sun, August 2, 2014. Parents and villagers of Navilawa in the upper reaches of Sabeto Valley in Nadi will no...