Press Release:

The Oceanica Foundation, as part of larger plan to introduce locally managable solutions for everyday problems to the Pacific Region, has delivered the plans for a Mid-Tech Solar Powered Water Purifier/ Desalinator unit to Mr. Manate Tabakea of the Council on Rabi.
Designed to be assembled on site with mainly local materials, easily constructed and operated by people with little or no technical training. Powered by the sun and requiring no electricity to operate, these units are… Continue

Report from Peter Crowley, Project Co-ordinator, Canberra, Australia

Some of The Banaban Rehabilitation Working Team meeting at Brisbane International Airport on their way to work in Nauru. L-R: Peter Crowley, Ken Sigrah, Gordon Atkinson and Barney Hogan.

… Continue

We now have an ABC radio interview available for download as an audio file.
Banaba Rehab interview audio file download

The Fiji Sun 6/18/2009

People of Rabi Island now have a chance to return to Ocean Island when rehabilitation works on their native island is completed. Development plans are already underway to restore the island which was vacated in the early 1900 due to the phosphate extraction by European companies on the island. The phosphate extraction ruined 90 per cent of the island forcing the native Barnabas to relo… Continue

RADIO AUSTRALIA NEWS - Melbourne Australia 19 June 2009

People forced from Ocean Island - or Banaba - in the Republic of Kiribati, by phosphate works have received a glimmer of hope about an eventual return home. At present, some of the Banaban people of Ocean Island are living on Rabi Island, off the north-east of Fiji's second largest island, Vanua Levu. Others are in Kiribati.
They have a chance to retur… Continue