And that’s no easy feat given that the recent past hasn’t been the easiest of rides. Crippling economic and social challenges have meant the organisation has had to overcome many barriers to arrive to where it is at today. But fortune favours the brave just as good things come to those who persevere and keep the faith.
Media articles
NEWS ARTICLES
Australia Network News
Pacific coconut oil begins to flow
8 August
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-08-08/an-samoa-coconut-oil-marketing/4186066
Well done Adi, and Women in Business
Samoa Observer
2 July 2012
SUMMARY:
Editorial commending Adi Tafuna'i and Women in Business: Twenty-one years is a long time. And in the case of the Women in Business Foundation, it has certainly proven during that time what an asset it is to this country and her people.
Diplomatic mash up
Samoa Observer
Monday, 19 March 2012 10:47
SUMMARY - It will be a diplomatic mash up of everything from the Body Shop’s coconut oil supplier to Samoa’s special Olympians when the British High Commissioner visits Samoa, this week. As well as talking to Samoa’s political leaders, the High Commissioner, Vicki Treadell will go to an organic plantation in Savai’i where the Body Shop sources much of its virgin Coconut oil.
Pacific Women in Business
18 November 2011
Suva, Fiji Times
SUMMARY: Could there be a Pacific Women in Business Association? Perhaps, a trade agreement between the Pacific women in business. Sounds ambitious but a group of women who recently met at the Pacific Islands Private Sector Organisation (PIPSO) Women in Business workshop believe this could happen.
Fetau discovery
Sunday, 01 May 2011 13:28, Samoa Observer
by Taina Kami Enoka
SUMMARY: Organic premium oil produced from the nut of the fetau plant will be exported to Germany within the next month. The project was launched at Nu’u by Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sa’ilele Malielegaoi yesterday.
http://www.savalinews.com/2011/02/19/person-of-the-year/
Person of the Year
Savali News, 19 February 2011
By Renate Rivers and Tupuola Terry Tavita
SUMMARY: Since its establishment in 1991, the Samoa Women in Business Development Inc. (WIBDI) has grown to envelop the region. And key to its success – though she will not admit it – is co-founder and Executive Director Adi Maimalaga Tafuna’i.
http://www.savalinews.com/2011/02/15/coffee-cocoa-on-the-comeback/
Coffee, cocoa on the comeback
Posted date: February 15, 2011
By Tupuola Terry Tavita
SUMMARY: The coffee and cocoa industry is making a strong comeback under government’s ongoing Stimulus Package programme.
Sharing Women’s Weight of Getting Healthy
November 2010 – Talamua
Story & photo by Tania Ahmed, Samoa Red Cross
SUMMARY: Samoa Challenge II is a program run by Samoa Red Cross, Women in Business and the U.S. Peace Corps. It aims to help women in villages in Upolu and Savaii improve their health through eating right and staying physically active.
http://www.samoaobserver.ws/index.php?view=article&id=25263%3Awomen-in&option=com_content&Itemid=87
Women in Business, 20 years on
By Bastin Alexandra
Friday, 06 August 2010
SUMMARY: For 20 years Women in Business has found opportunities for vulnerable people living in rural areas to earn an income from the production of handicrafts, organic food, coconut oil and fine mats.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10615670
Green Business: Samoa's organic bananas making NZ inroads
By Sahar Lone
NZ Herald
1:00 PM Friday Feb 12, 2010
SUMMARY: Samoa's organic banana exports are set to get a boost from a new partnership between a New Zealand food company and a Samoan women's group.
BLOGS
by US Ambasssador David Huebner
http://shuraleffinpeacecorps.blogspot.com/2011/04/women-in-business-development.html
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
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