Namosi Village in the Distance

Scenic School Setting

View from Classroom

Teachers @ School

REACT Workstation

Students @ School

Solar Power and Satellite Communications

Village Chief's Welcome Ceremony

Michael Accepts the Kava

Sue's Turn....

Village Bure

Namosi was one of the first schools to have REACT installed as part of the Ministry of Education's IDL project.

Namosi is a village community located half a day's drive from Suva with a small school for secondary students living in the village and nearby.

The drive to Namosi is through beautiful mountanous, river crossed countryside with cascading waterfalls and sheer vertical cliff drops around every corner!  The narrow, stony 4x4 road also serves as the road traversed by trucks bringing supplies to the area and is treacherous even in good weather!

The infrastructure in the village is limited with satellite being the only communications network.  Solar power provides the power to run the communications with the village only having generator powered electricity for 2 hours each morning and evening.

Despite this, school is 'in' 5 days a week with IDL lessons scheduled for the time when the generator is running.  As with the other schools in this project, students now have much greater access to education and teaching resources through the IDL studio in Nasinu.

REACT not only provides a rich and engaging educational platform but provides an opportunity for the village to be connected to other services in Suva such as health and government offices.