Coloi Youths Move Inland

Coloi youths are a group of farmers in Sawakasa, Tailevu North and their main crop is Kava. These youths face challenges daily and a significant one is the distance to travel to their farm lands. The distance from the village to their farm is around  70km and it is unrealistic to travel there daily.

the farm shelter which needs to be worked on to provide the comfort

 Team Leader Te Navila has organised their plans for the year and setting targets to have better houses to ensure the youths live in comfort after a hard days work. He made a review on their farms and found that these youths are lured back into the village to attend to village obligations and thus loose focus on their farms. The immediate needs identified were  access to farm to be cleared and maintained, accommodation to be improved, and each youth to have own shelter by the end of the year.

youths meeting to better their farming activities for 2014

In the kava plantation weed controlling