Ha’apai Island Group to declare Organic 100% - First in Tonga Voice of the Future fied. President of TNYC and ICS Officer of the Ha’apai group worked in partner- ship with the Governor of Ha’apai, Ha’apai Plan committee, Civil Society Forum of Tonga and oth- er NGO’s have been vis- iting the small islands to work on organic farming. With the work for certifi- cation complete Once the whole island will be inspected before being fully certified. According to the Ha’apai Youth Of- fice, various meetings with the Governor’s of- fice to confirm the pro- cess and the determina- C hangings one’s attitudes and be- havior take time before it happens, but in or- ganic farming to the Ha’apai group is just a snap of fingers be- cause organic is a way of life, this is how they have live before and are still doing the same practice up to now. All these times, promoting organic farming to peo- ple in Tonga has been a challenges especially in the main island such as Tongatapu and Vava’u. Organic Certification have approved num- ber of registered farm- ers in Tonga. In Ha’apai there were 10 certified growers, and the certifi- cation officer once visit- ed Ha’apai have seen the uniqueness and beauty of people living and practicing organic way have empowered the government repre- sentatives , NGO’s and people in Ha’apai to transform the whole of Ha’apai group to be- come Organic Certi- Inside this issue: Changing of Youth Mindset take a while...soon to get there 2 VCO covers shortage cooking Oil in Niuafo’ou 2 Longest Vanilla Bean to be claimed once confirmed 2 Tupou High School Golden Jubilee 3 Staff Capacity Building – Monitoring & Evaluation Training 4 Towards safer Public Transfor- mation 4 Encourage Young people to engage small enterprises 4 Special points of interest: Changing Youth Mindsets– an atti- tude to tackle VCO serving locals in times of need Staff Capacity Building is essential to TNYC Encouraging young people to engage small enterprise. Photo page of June Towards safer Public Transport Tonga National Youth Congress. Volume 1, Issue 5 Issue of June 2013 Voice of the Future, Volume 1, Issue 5 tion of the people to move towards organic. With the few communi- ties and villages who have VCO Units they have testified to the ben- efits that they have re- ceived in term of in- comes coming in to the families and youth in the village from the coconut oil. This further push and make Ha’apai peo- ple stand up to work for their own economic de- velopment. The Pacific Leadership Program have funded these visit and economic develop- ment through their lead- ership program.
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Ha’apai Island Group to declare Organic 100% - First in Tonga
Voice of the Future
fied.
President of TNYC and
ICS Officer of the Ha’apai
group worked in partner-
ship with the Governor of
Ha’apai, Ha’apai Plan
committee, Civil Society
Forum of Tonga and oth-
er NGO’s have been vis-
iting the small islands to
work on organic farming.
With the work for certifi-
cation complete Once
the whole island will be
inspected before being
fully certified. According
to the Ha’apai Youth Of-
fice, various meetings
with the Governor’s of-
fice to confirm the pro-
cess and the determina-
C hangings one’s
attitudes and be-
havior take time before
it happens, but in or-
ganic farming to the
Ha’apai group is just a
snap of fingers be-
cause organic is a way
of life, this is how they
have live before and
are still doing the same
practice up to now. All
these times, promoting
organic farming to peo-
ple in Tonga has been a
challenges especially in
the main island such as
Tongatapu and Vava’u.
Organic Certification
have approved num-
ber of registered farm-
ers in Tonga. In Ha’apai
there were 10 certified
growers, and the certifi-
cation officer once visit-
ed Ha’apai have seen
the uniqueness and
beauty of people living
and practicing organic
way have empowered
the government repre-
sentatives , NGO’s and
people in Ha’apai to
transform the whole of
Ha’apai group to be-
come Organic Certi-
Inside this issue:
Changing of Youth Mindset take a while...soon to get there
2
VCO covers shortage cooking Oil in Niuafo’ou
2
Longest Vanilla Bean to be claimed once confirmed
2
Tupou High School Golden Jubilee 3
Staff Capacity Building –Monitoring & Evaluation Training
4
Towards safer Public Transfor-mation
4
Encourage Young people to engage small enterprises
4
Special points of interest:
Changing Youth Mindsets– an atti-
tude to tackle
VCO serving locals in times of need
Staff Capacity Building is essential to
TNYC
Encouraging young people to engage
small enterprise.
Photo page of June
Towards safer Public Transport
Tonga National Youth Congress. Volume 1, Issue 5
Issue of June 2013
Voice of the Future, Volume 1, Issue 5
tion of the people to
move towards organic.
With the few communi-
ties and villages who
have VCO Units they
have testified to the ben-
efits that they have re-
ceived in term of in-
comes coming in to the
families and youth in the
village from the coconut
oil. This further push
and make Ha’apai peo-
ple stand up to work for
their own economic de-
velopment. The Pacific
Leadership Program
have funded these visit
and economic develop-
ment through their lead-
ership program.
A ccording to report from
the ICS officer in the is-
land of Niuafo‟ou, since
the boat goes to the island nearly
once in every quarter the island ran
out of cooking oil and VCO site
have provided the people of
Niuafo‟ou with the coconut oil for
It is a step forward putting youth
contribution to address the local
need of the people in the island of
Niuafo‟ou.
The ship arrived with 7 buckets
from Niuafo‟ou for the export
market in Tongatapu.
their cookings.
It is not new to the island the
shortage of supplies due to lack of
ship operated to the island in the
far North of Tonga. The Niuafo'ou
Youth congress office will contin-
ue to supply for their local need.
Longest Vanilla claimed at Tevita Sanft’s Vanilla Export World Record Book.
I t is Vanilla harvesting sea-
son in Tonga and Mr. Tevita
Sanft the only certified or-
ganic processor of vanilla in
Tonga have waste no time in buy-
ing vanilla from the vanilla grow-
ers to get as much vanilla before
the harvest season is out. There are
about 37 certified vanilla grower
who are selling to Tevita Sanft
Processor. This season he was so
Impressed and excited that he got
one vanilla beans of
27.5centimeters from his vanilla
grower last week from the island
of „Eua. The world record is a 26.5
cm. Tevita Sanft vanilla been will
be measured by the Ministry of
Agriculture for confirmation be-
fore it is put forth to the Guinnes
Changing of Youth Mindset takes a while...soon to get there!
Virgin Coconut Oil addresses shortage of Cooking Oil in Niuafo’ou
Page 2 Voice of the Future
T wo days workshop at the
Scenic Hotel last week
address the need for small
businesses which indicate the lack
of strong growth of small-medium
businesses in Tonga.
M r. Simana Kami of
„Oholei Beach Resort
emphasized there
seem to be a tendency within the
Tongan people of having a mind-
set that jobs and employment is
only the white collar job not work-
ing for example in his Beach Re-
sort „Oholei” located in the rural
area. “Look here, I have employed
young people around Lavengaton-
ga, Fatumu and Ha‟asini for about
40 of them in my resort. I have set
the working hours and so on, they
did not turn up in times or bother
to show up. For 6 years they prefer
to travel to town with very clean
clothes and a week pay halved by
transportation cost” He goes on
and said” Its a mindset of the peo-
ple that need to change. Moving
towards a better life rooted in
changing one‟s mentality.
27.5cm Vanilla bean
Mr. Teisina Fuko during the Medium Small
Micro Enterprise Workshop at the Scenic
Hotel Conference room
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Tupou High School Tupou High School Tupou High School reaching Golden Jubileereaching Golden Jubileereaching Golden Jubilee———50 years of Service with education in the Kingdom50 years of Service with education in the Kingdom50 years of Service with education in the Kingdom
EE ducation institutions ducation institutions
in the Kingdom of in the Kingdom of
Tonga have played Tonga have played
major roles in transforming major roles in transforming
and shaping our country to and shaping our country to
what is it now .what is it now .
Tupou High School is a sec-Tupou High School is a sec-
ondary school of the Methodist ondary school of the Methodist
Church who served and edu-Church who served and edu-
cated Tongans for generations cated Tongans for generations
have now reached its Golden have now reached its Golden
Jubilee and exJubilee and ex--students from students from
everywhere gathered into the everywhere gathered into the
main island in celebration and main island in celebration and
donations to the school donations to the school
through various areas where through various areas where
there is need for the school and there is need for the school and
its development.its development.
This celebration starts off with This celebration starts off with
a chronological procession a chronological procession
from the pioneers year current from the pioneers year current
student. The march procession student. The march procession
starts from the historical starts from the historical
ground where the school was ground where the school was
first established at the com-first established at the com-
pound at Fasipound at Fasi--moemoe--afi, afi,
Nuku‟alofa to the Centennial Nuku‟alofa to the Centennial
Church in Nuku‟alofa.Church in Nuku‟alofa.
This is a three celebration and This is a three celebration and
ended with a general meeting ended with a general meeting
of all exof all ex--students to see what students to see what
area they can better assist the area they can better assist the
school.school.
This is such a nice flash back This is such a nice flash back
from exfrom ex--students reminiscing students reminiscing
about the old days with fond about the old days with fond
memories while they were memories while they were
still in school.still in school.
O ver the last decades where
youth parliament was a plat-
form to lobby for changes in the
whole process.
Identification card were among the
agendas in related to alcohol and
tobacco accessing by the youth.
After the tragedy of the Ashika
of with un-identifying people was a
sad matter, raising concerns.
Now, the procedure of safety
demonstration is effective in the
sea vessels operating to the outer
islands. It is great hope that this
would help any disaster might hap-
pen on the way to the next island
Instead of Making workshops, encourage young people to engage!
boards overseas and totally differ-
ent when they actually arrived M s. Cassandra Mafi,
young entrepreneur
consultant attended the
Medium Small Micro Enterprise
workshops sees something missing
in the process of marketing of lo-
cal services.
“Instead of making lots of money
in the promotion overseas, encour-
age our local people to make it a
reality in our own country” Cas-
sandra says in the training.
Most of our marketing strategy
targeted foreign people but it will
be more beneficial to start it local-
ly and empower our young entre-
preneurs and carry it out through .
It will save money and resources
instead of putting high cost bill
Monitoring and Evaluation Training—Capacity Building to our staff
Towards safer Public Transport - Lesson learnt from Tragedy
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D uring the sixth month of
the year, June came in
handy and staff making efforts to
attend these training. Monitoring
and Evaluation was able to aid the
need to capacitate the staff in the
office, attended by our Data Of-
ficer Mrs. Kalisi Niu‟ila and Me-
dia Assistant Mr. Peniueti Jagroop.
It was a need to make training ben-
eficial to the staff to make capacity
building within the existing staff .
This was ran a whole week trying
to make the best of it .
Data collection was a bit of lack
and always an issue in which this
training emphasized the long term
importance to our organization.
It was a step ahead for our partici-
pating representatives in making a
lot of effort to improve this divi-
sion within the organization and
have gained a lot of methods to
collect data and information.
Youth participants at the Training
MV. Onemato Crew demonstrate the ship
safety before it departs ‘Eua.
Active listeners and participated .
Page 5 Voice of the Future, Volume 1, Issue 5 Future of Tonga marching the street marking the opening of Tonga Parliament 2013
Organic Vanilla Exporter—Longest Vanilla Bean
Picture from Various trainings attended by TNYC Staff in the month of June.
Proudest Vanilla Exporter, Mrs. Longovuka Sanft measuring vanilla beans from growers ready to define confirmation of records
Lavengamalie College, Beulah Adventist College and Liahona High School marched with their talented band groups
TNYC Data Officer, Mrs. Kalisi Niu’ila a , Mr. Tavite Fisiitalia from Tongatapu Youth Office during Data Monitoring Workshop
Mission statement: To foster the welfare of the youth of the kingdom of Tonga through programs that foster responsibility, citizenship, community service and leadership Summary of agency: TNYC is a Non-Government Organization works for the development of the youth of Tonga in every level of society from grass roots to decision making level. It is a body that seeks opportunities for pro-jects that would encourage and empower youth’s talents and creativity. Annual Events:
Youth Development Training - (through Ola Fou Program)
