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Nadi Women's Crisis Centre |
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Established in November 2003, the Nadi Women’s Crisis Centre is funded by NZAID. Current funding resumed in July 2004 and will end in June 2005. The Centre is located on the western side of Viti Levu, Fiji’s largest island. The services provided by the Centre extends down the cane-belt area to include the townships of Nadi, Lautoka, Sigatoka and surrounding villages and rural settlements.. The address of the Centre is 84 Sagayam Road, Nadi. The Centre’s postal address is PO Box 2663, Nadi Town and telephone contact is (679) 6707 558. Working hours at the Centre are from 8.30am- 4pm, Monday-Friday. History: The Centre was previously located in Lautoka and known as the Lautoka Women’s Crisis Centre. A group of concerned women discussed the need for a centre that provided crisis counselling and support services to the victims/survivors of violence in Lautoka and contacted the Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre to express their interest in setting up a centre in Lautoka similar to that of FWCC. FWCC Coordinator was invited to explain the details of operating and managing a crisis centre. In December 1994, a group of 20 women attended a one-week training course run by FWCC on basic counseling skills. 13 women then volunteered their time as counsellors, which led to the formation of the Lautoka Women’s Crisis Centre. In November 2003, the Lautoka Women’s Crisis Centre ceased operation and opened up for services in Nadi. This move came about to cater for clients coming from the Sigatoka/Nadi area. |
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Labasa Women's Crisis Centre |
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Established in 1994, the Labasa Women’s Crisis Centre is funded by NZAID. Current funding resumed in July 2004 and will end in June 2005. The Labasa Women’s Crisis Centre is located on the Northern side of Vanua Levu, Fiji’s second largest island. It covers the 3 provinces of Cakaudrove, Bua and Macuata in which the township of Labasa is located. The Centre is located in Bayly house, Siberia Road, Labasa and the project Officer is Sera Bogitini. The postal address and telephone contact of the Centre are PO Box 319, Labasa and (679) 8814 609. The working hours are 8.30am-4pm, Monday-Friday. History: In 1991, after attending a Counsellor Training Workshop and awareness raising on violence against women, a small group of volunteers led by Bimla Singh (the Centre’s senior counselor and community educator) of Labasa, started to work with individual victims and speaking to women’s groups and schools. Other women became interested so that in May 1994, 28 women formed the Labasa Women’s Crisis Centre following another workshop training with FWCC in Labasa. The volunteers used Bimla Singh’s home and telephone as their contact to counsel women, accompany them to court, conduct fund-raising activities and give talks to community groups and schools. Today, the Labasa Women’s Crisis Centre is run as a collective, with four full-time staff and volunteers. |
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 Established in 1992, the Ba Women’s Crisis Centre is funded by NZAID. Current funding resumed in July 2004 and will end in June 2005. The Centre is located on the western side of Viti Levu, Fiji’s largest island. The service extends to the townships of Tavua, Vatukoula and Rakiraki including the surrounding villages and rural settlements. The Ba Women’s Crisis Centre is located at 5 Tabua Place and the Project officer is Wilma Eileen. The Postal address and telephone contact of the Centre is PO Box 3127, Ba and (679) 6670 466. The Centre opens from 8.30am-4pm, Monday-Friday. History: Concern at the huge increase of violent assaults against women in the Ba area |
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