Women’s & Youth literacy Seminar, Wagina parish

35 participants representing their parish (Wagina, Moli, Sirovanga, Nila, Gizo and Noro) have completed a 5 days seminar from 10^th to 14^th May at Wagina Parish Cookson. Mostly are females and some of them are youths and kindergarten teachers.

The Seminar mainly was to teach participants on sounding of the letters and constructing words out from those soundings.

However, as it was a Pidgin spoken seminar and many words are spelled in Pidgin rather than English. During the seminar they were put in groups for – practicing teacher teaching the class.

The Program was facilitated by Sr. Evangeline DMI from Diocese of Auki with the help of Janet Burabura.

Blessing of St. Paul’s Chapel – Nikumaroro, Wagina.

Fr Geoffrey

Originally from Malaita. Auki Diocese, Tarapaina Parish, he is the Parish Priest of Sacred Heart Parish, Cookson, Wagina, Choiseul Province.

Diocese of Gizo in the Solomon Islands
New priest ordained at Wagina

Wagina recently (December 2005) celebrated the Ordination to the Priesthood of Father Laurence Kimaere, the latest local Dominican to be ordained. The celebrations that his people, I-Kiribati migrants here now over 40 years, had arranged for the occasion were truly magnificent with the focus on their own unique traditional dance and song in the Liturgy and feasting and dancing in the Maneaba (Meeting House).