Turtle Island Fiji gave $10,000 worth of stationery to 342 students in the Yasawa Group last week.
Resort managing director Richard Evanson Jr said they were aware that parents struggled to send their children back to school.
He said the income of families in the group were heavily affected. “We could only imagine the concerns every parent would have faced about how they’ll provide the educational tools and supplies their children needed when many have gone without paid work for close to 12 months,” he said.
“We couldn’t just sit back and do nothing.
“Given the impacts of this crisis on our own business, we’ve certainly had to think of creative ways to assist others.”
He said they wanted to invest in the children’s education.
“We realise the importance of continuing to invest in the education of our local community because things will improve and we don’t want to have allowed our children to have fallen behind as a result of this pandemic.”
