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Climate Change Climate Change
Salt water intrusion at Vunisavisavi.
Cakaudrove and Narikoso in Kadavu have moved to new sites,’’
Bulimaitoga said.
“They have alternative land, whereas we are not so fortu-
nate. Vunisavisavi is just this thin strip of shoreline and the
steep slope behind it - about two acres - so there is nowhere
to go.
“At Somosomo we have no land. It was never our home. We
At Somosomo we have live here and perhaps we will die here.’’
no land. It was never our Assistance from the State can only be provided to villages
home. We live here and and Vunisavisavi is recognised only as a settlement, falling
outside of government relocation strategies.
perhaps we will die here. There has been limited help for the community with four
new homes built through humanitarian assistance from the
United States.
Mangrove planting, new drains and temporary sea walls have
failed to hold back the sea.
For now, the people of Vunisavisavi gather in prayer to seek
divine intervention.
The gong which calls them to nightly worship may soon be
the knell which signals their death.
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