Efforts to Promote Education
PBF funds students returning to college
- Pacific Blue Foundation sponsored four students, providing 50% of their student fees so they could return to their tertiary studies.
- Pacific Blue Foundation provided loans to two students to cover school expenses.
- Pacific Blue Foundation provided loans to the Yanuca Council, so they could contribute 25% of the student fees, as part of the Council’s Donation.
PBF sponsors relevant training for villagers
- Heads of various trades and committees on Yanuca Island were sponsored by Pacific Blue Foundation to attend a basic accounting course.
- Pacific Blue Foundation provided two Yanuca kindergarten teachers with a grant that funded six weeks of training.
PBF encourages and funds villagers to specialize in trades
- Pacific Blue Foundation sponsored a villager’s carpentry course, covering the fees.
- Pacific Blue Foundation paid for a student’s transportation cost, so that he could enroll in an automotive engineering course, obtaining “outboard engine maintenance” skills that would benefit the island.