Cambridge students giving back in Fiji

Cambridge students giving back in Fiji

  • Cambridge students with John Rothnie-Jones
  • Entire CAUKIN Group

Earlier this August, four current Cambridge undergraduates visited Fiji to volunteer for a building project. All architecture students, they are part of the CAUKIN group, a volunteer group organised by a group of friends who attended universities in Canada, the UK and Indonesia.

CAUKIN wanted to bring together friends in a project that used their knowledge, deepened their skills and gave back to the community. The students are in Fiji for 3 – 6 weeks, re-building the community hall in Vivili village that was destroyed by Cyclone Winston in 2016 and extending the classrooms at Naweni.

All the students involved came to Daku resort for two days' R and R, and were welcomed by Cambridge alumnus John Rothnie-Jones who owns the resort and is the primary group contact for the Fiji Cambridge and Oxford Alumni Group.

Seen left to right are: Hosea Lau (Magdalene 2016), Eva Barnett (Queens' 2016), Darya Keivani (Peterhouse 2014), Sophia Bharmal (Clare 2014), John Rothnie-Jones (Emmanuel 1969)