Travelling to the Solomons

Pearl Beach resident Ms Lucinda Wilson will shortly venture to a remote part of the Solomon Islands to undertake a monitoring and evaluating exercise for the Indigo Foundation.

The Indigo Foundation is a small Australian charity that works with communities around the world who have set up projects and need support.

The project, on the Weathercoast of the Solomon Islands, is a training centre for young people that was set up around seven years ago after the civil conflict ended.

To get to the Weathercoast Ms Wilson has to fly to Honiara via Brisbane, catch a boat for eight to 12 hours and then walk to the project.

She plans to hike back to the capital over four days, as there are no roads to the Weathercoast.

Ms Wilson is on the management committee of the Indigo Foundation.

Fellow Pearl Beach resident Mr Philip Strickland recently ventured to the Democratic Republic of Congo to conduct a similar monitoring and evaluation trip as the management committee representative for the Congo project that the Indigo Foundation supports.

This project was featured on the ABC's Foreign Correspondent in September.

Online Submission, 14 Feb 2011 Lucinda Wilson, Pearl Beach