7 Oct 2016

NZ tradies hand over houses to Fiji families

From , 5:03 am on 7 October 2016

New Zealand's Maori and Pasifika Trades Training organisation is this week handing over newly-built houses in Fiji as part of the Cyclone Winston rebuild.

The group upskills New Zealanders and helps to find them jobs, but took a dozen trainees to the Loqi settlement near Lautoka to help build cyclone-resistant houses.

The group's Communications Manager, Ben Chapman-Smith, has just returned from Fiji and told Alex Perrottet families there are still in great need.

Rusila Delagi in front of her small makeshift house and her ruined home in the background Nasau village Koro Island Fiji

Rusila Delagi in front of her small makeshift house and her ruined home in the background Nasau village Koro Island Fiji Photo: RNZ / Alex Perrottet