Our Impact

In 2025, Vunilagi Book Club supported children’s reading across four communities; Nanuku, Dilkusha, St Christopher’s Home, and Beqa Island. Around 60 children now engage regularly in reading sessions, supported by local, diaspora, and international volunteers, including long-standing partners such as YWAM.

Our work this year focused on consistency rather than scale. Weekly and fortnightly reading sessions continued, with older children in Nanuku stepping into leadership roles to support younger readers. A six-week tutoring pilot in Nanuku delivered 60 hours of targeted learning support, funded through community fundraising, with resources now reserved to extend this model to Dilkusha.

Book access remains central to our work. While interest from donors continues to grow, the real challenge is transport, storage, and suitability of books once they arrive in Fiji. In response, we began rotating book sets between communities, prioritising age-appropriate and locally authored content, and testing shared use models to maximise impact.

Financially, Vunilagi operated with care and transparency. In 2025, FJD 9,027 was recorded in income and FJD 4,706 in expenses, leaving a balance of FJD 5,438. Funds were directed primarily to reading sessions, tutoring, and essential operational costs. A separate fundraising effort raised AUD 1,310 toward improving the Nanuku reading space, with longer-term upgrades underway.

As we move into 2026, our focus is clear: strengthening data consistency, expanding tutoring where it is most needed, improving book logistics, and supporting volunteers so every reading session remains safe, consistent, and community-led.