Results for Tonga Red Cross

Cyclone relief goods are being stored for free by a local company, Dateline Transam Shipping and their partner Pacific Direct Line, valued at more than TOP$20,000 in support of Tonga Red Cross.

A private gift of around 5000 pairs of shoes from Japan are being distributed by the Tonga Red Cross this week to young students at various schools in Tongatapu.

People on the small island of Mo’unga’one in Ha’apai are receiving assistance from FINPAC, a four-year regional project that has provided a new boat, and installed a multi-purpose siren to improve warning of natural disasters.

A new multi-purpose training centre for Tonga Red Cross Society in Pangai, Ha'apai funded by the Japanese Government was handed over yesterday, Wednesday, 30 March.

The first 60 of 115 new water tanks were shipped today to Niuafo'ou by Tonga Red Cross to help people with their water storage during the current drought alert.

HE Mr David Vogelsanger, the Ambassador of Switzerland to Tonga visited the Tonga Red Cross Office in Nuku’alofa on Wednesday, 27 May.

A government decision and a Parliamentary Motion to stop the construction of temporary houses for the victims of Cyclone Ian in Ha'apai has left the reconstruction in limbo, as the government pursues its objective of allowing only the building of 800 permanent houses at a cost of $48 million, even though no one knows where the funding will come from. From the House, by Pesi Fonua

Eleven families in four Hihifo villages are receiving help from the Red Cross after their homes were affected by flood waters caused by heavy rainfall last week, March 24 – 25.

The New Zealand Government has committed $40,000 (NZD) to Tonga's Red Cross to purchase guttering kits for over 500 homes in Ha'apai for clean rainwater collection.