Vava’u Youth Congress 2

Niua Fo’ou Youth Congress 2

Niua Toputapu Youth Congress 2

Photo Page 3

Month Harvest 4

Advertisement 4

STI and HIV 5

Tongatapu Youth Congress 5

‘Eua Youth Congress 5

Inside this issue:

Date :- Feb 2015

E ver since the destructive force of cyclone Ian swept through the

Ha‟apai groups, Ha‟apai have been coping with its impact. Through Tonga National Youth Congress (TNYC) partners has been assisting what was needed for Ha‟apai.

“Yes our beloved Ha‟apai is crippled.” said the office manager of Ha‟apai Youth Congress, Teisa Lautu'u, “but we are striving and with the help of TNYC partners, we know we will pre-vail.”

TNYC and her partners based their aid mainly on water. Now TNYC has partnered up with the Canadian Fund to give aid to Ha‟apai. The main pur-pose of this project is to ensure that if El Niño strikes again, there will be clean equipment that can be used to store clean water for the community, “obtaining this project is a great op-portunity for our organization to carry out more help for the public” said the coordinator of environment and disas-ter Mausa Halahala “this will make our job easier to be carry out. For now we can just go with the desalination unit and pump in to these clean water tank and distributed to the communities.”

According to the report by the HYC office manager Teisa Lautu'u, as soon as the water tank arrives all the three communities where ready to transport them in their boats to their islands and building a foundation for the tank “all four villages in the district of Kauvai and the island of Mo‟unga‟one owes TNYC their gratitude.” said Teisa Lau-tu‟u

“We can‟t express enough the grati-tude that we have for TNYC” said the town officer of Pokotala “the Tonga National Youth Congress have been with us ever since T.C Ian. TNYC and her partners have been providing all short of aid but the most effectiveness is when they ensure that we have clean water to drink from.”

Natural hazard will always bring de-struction that will impact our lives in every way but through the cooperation of TNYC and her colleagues they could be the answer to reduce some of the impact that it bring.

.Teisa Lautuu

clean environment.”

NTTYC is a motivated group but motivation still needs little enthusiasm to keep it alive. In this manner the youth groups gathered at Sosefo Hall and delight-ed themselves to a series of games.

T hroughout TNYC fam-

ily, Niua Fo‟ou Youth

Congress (NFYC) is so

active in the area of sports,

“since our members are

not that great we have the

advantage of working with

our youth groups much

closer to set our programs”

said Anau Tufui, office

manager of NFYC.

NFYC and their youth have

been developing series of

sports activities to keep

them healthy “this year we

change the selection of

those who will competing”

said Anau Tufui “instead of

letting the youth groups

select their players, we

decided to let them come

in to the play field and we

will select who play and

which team he or she will

be representing. In this

way a mix of youths from

different youth groups will

play together and learn

from one other‟s skills. Not

to mention the excitement

that it will bring to the are-

na.”

NFYC sports activities will

include volleyball and net-

ball for girls.

groups have rallied to start helping the communities” said Piula Maea ICS officer of NTTYC “The Vai ko Niutoua youths have been clearing the roads sides of Hihifo and sea shore areas of Falehau and Vaipoa. Yes we have been busy in making sure that we are a

Y outh groups are meant to work togeth-

er, move together, build together a greater path for fellow youths to follow.

That is just what is happen-ing at Niua Toputapu Youth Congress (NTTYC) “when the office opens, our youth

“we are making it our num-ber one task this year to revive our member groups” said „Akosita Tua “over the years some of our youth groups have yet to register, so 2015 we will try to get them re-register them. Our members are just enough to work with, we will not allow those that have yet to

register to just wander like that.”

VYC is planning to tackle this task by designing crea-tive , exiting and interesting programs.

V ava‟u Youth Congress (VYC) is one unique

youth congress within TNYC “we at Vava‟u al-ways try to move toward perfection.” said „Akosita Tua, Office manager of VYC

This year VYC is aiming to revive all her youth mem-bers have yet to register

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Feb 02

Meeting with the Ministry of Finance. Drew Havea and TNYC director with BOSS (TBEC)

Staff meeting where Employment and Train-ing Coordinator of training present his Nation-al Youth Strategy plan.

Feb 11

TNYC director, Employment and Training Co-ordinator and „Emele Latu meeting at TNYC

Feb 12

Radio program broadcasting

Feb 17

OXFAM Rep visiting TNYC

Feb 24

Admiration division meeting

Feb 25

Environment workshop at Vaololoa was at-

tended by Mausa Halahala and ‟Ana Vainga

Workshop in disaster risk management in Ag-ricultural attended by Navuso Tuaimei‟api

Feb 26

TNYC director meeting with PLP at Kupu House

Radio broadcasting at A3Z with Mausa Halahala and Savelio Lavelua hosted by Pe-niueti Jagroop

Feb 28

Division updates

Printing of the Le‟o „oe Kahau and getting the equipment ready for the voyage of Environ-ment and Disaster coordinator and „Ana Vainga to Ha‟apai

that our communities are well informed.

As the discussion started, NGOs realized that despite their hard work, a small portion is still affected sus-pected that they may have not been aware of the dan-ger, and it is our duty to inform them.

with the virgin coconut oil” said „Amelia Latu, Office Manager of EYC, “we know the importance of this oper-ation, and that‟s why we chose to start with our VCO unit, to start produc-ing the coconut oil.”

The youth groups of Ha‟atu‟a, Tongamama‟o and Petani have started

the work, “these three groups have been the role model for all the youth groups here in our island” said „Amelia Latu “I have no doubt that along the way other youth groups will join. I know producing co-conut oil is hard work but through teamwork this pro-ject will be our biggest as-sistance.”

of this one day Focus Group discussion funded by UNFPA and conducted by National University of Fiji.

On 19th of February a group of NGO reps gath-ered at the conference room of the Ministry of Health to see if we are do-ing all we could to ensure

E veryone in the globe knows how deadly STI

and HIV are. The aware-ness for these virus have been recognized globally.

But are we doing what we suppose to do to keep the public aware of its danger?

That was the question raised from the facilitators

„E ua Youth Congress (EYC) is one of most

motivated youth congress with in TNYC. While the other youth congress are rallying their youth mem-bers, EYC have rallied their youth members to start working on their Virgin Co-conut Oil unit (VCO unit) “our year has kicked start

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‘Amelia Latu

I n 2014 Tongatapu Youth Congress (TYC) have

come across a great stum-bling block that have de-railed it from achieving her goals.

This year the new office manager of TYC Ma‟ata Moala has seen this as a challenge that can be dis-cussed and dealt with. “I must say that we have lost

sight of our goals and pro-grams but all of that is about to change” said Ma‟ata Moala “we are plan-ning to win back our youths. Win back their trust, com-mitment and resptect.”

Ma‟ata‟s first task is to get the youth groups back to the table and from there develop a program that will interest them “I will be

meeting youth groups and former managers of TYC to learn all I could” said Ma‟ata Moala “I don‟t believe that this will be an impossible task, cause youths are cre-ative and adaptable to a program that will work for us and TYC will prevail.” Ma’ata Moala