Founders of the Foundation for Rural Integrated Enterprises 'N' Development (FRIEND) are today celebrating their success last night as the overall winner of the Fiji Development Bank's Small Business Awards 2006. The awards were announced and presented at the Holiday Inn Hotel on Victoria Parade, Suva.

FRIEND, a non-governmental organization (NGO) founded five years' ago as a charity organisation to alleviate poverty in Fiji's rural communities through the development of fund-raising ventures to provide the communities with better access to resources.

The head office is based in the city of Lautoka on the main island of Viti Levu, with volunteers from many parts of Fiji.

Could you please let me know your(FRIEND)e-mail address. I hope I'm on the right site, but if not could you please find that for me. I need to know few things about FRIEND and may -be I could help you with funding etc.

I'm a x-Fijian and live in Australia now. Your assistance will really help me-and perhaps I could be of some help to your endeavours in the near future.

Anyway keep up the good work and congratulations on winning the FDB award.

The FRIEND website can be found at http://www.fijifriend.com .. the home page currently features the award they just achieved. And the following page provides some contact details for them.
http://www.fijifriend.com/contact.html