15 Jun 2021

Food shortages increasing in Fiji amid Covid-19 outbreak

From Pacific Waves


Vulnerable families in Fiji are living on a tin of fish or a packet of biscuits a day as the pandemic continues to bite.

Charities are working hard to deal with a desperate need for food and other necessities like baby formula, masks and medicine.

Sally Round has been speaking to some of them.

Sack gardens for Nadi where low lying communities have been struggling to grow food in the floods. Each sack has eight types of crops to ensure nutrition diversity.

Sack gardens for Nadi where low lying communities have been struggling to grow food in the floods. Each sack has eight types of crops to ensure nutrition diversity. Photo: Supplied


Meanwhile, Save the Children New Zealand has launched an emergency appeal to help feed hundreds of Fijian families decimated by the pandemic.

And in recent days, Save the Children Fiji has been delivering grocery packs containing much-needed food supplies, soap, surgical masks, nappies and sanitary pads to families in need in the Suva-Nausori corridor.

 

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