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:pride of the pacific Rembi weeks at the Central Market. Ning Gabrino Island: Solomon Islands Business Name: Ning���s Bakery and Caf�� Vavilyn Brook and Loretta Island: Solomon Islands Business Name: The Bilum Tree Vavilyn Brook and Loretta Rembi understand the struggle that small, craft based industries face in relation to land issues. The women sell handicrafts, including traditional mats, woven hats, and bilum bags (small, string bags) from under a tree in central Honiara. The location and women���s set-up serves as something of a makeshift market. The tree is surrounded by mainly craft makers and on any given day there are dozens of brightly coloured mats, hats and bilum, or traditional, bags hanging for sale flying from its branches. Known to everyone as ���The Bilum Tree,��� this provides an informal and recognizable place for the craft sellers to congregate. Joyce Maetola Island: Solomon Islands Business Name: Solomon Host In 2007, Joyce graduated from the University of South Pacific with a Bachelor of Arts and Tourism and a Certificate in Tourism Studies from New Zealand. One of Joyce���s key employees, Alexandria Hilly, gained a Bachelor of Hotel and Tourism Management in Australia and Diploma in Hospitality Management from TAFE Queensland. Struggling to find employment when she returned to the Solomon Islands with her new qualifications, Joyce decided to start her own tourism and hospitality training business, Solomon Host. Noela and Angela Aniaelani and Bernadette Mola Island: Solomon Islands Business Name: Shell Jewellery Market Stall Noela and Angela Aniaelani and Bernadette Mola have come from their coral island of Langa Langa to the Central Markets of Honiara for 20 years to sell shell money. The market is the frenetic hub of the city���s agricultural and craft trade and is the thriving centre of the town for six days of the week, providing hundreds of people with their only means of employment. Angela, Noela, and Bernadette spend one month of every 10 34 | www.h e rma gaz i n e . c o. n z Ning Gabrino���s employees call her ���Big Mom���. Every work day at her business, Ning���s Bakery and Caf��, comes with breakfast and lunch, and she pays the accommodation costs for permanent staff. In her hiring, Ning aims to employ women who are victims of domestic violence or separated from their husbands. The caf�� and bakery sits in central Honiara and has quickly become something of an institution for its Filipino food and large shady courtyard that offers respite from the fierce Solomon Island sun. Jenny Neil Jones Island: Vanuatu Business Name: The Secret Garden Nestled amidst lush tropical foliage, The Secret Garden caf�� and garden is one of Port Vila���s most visited tourist attractions. Traditional wooden carvings, called Tamtam faces, greet tourists as they enter the caf�� where they are treated to a display of Vanuatu���s rich cultural history and traditions. The owner, Jenny Neil Jones, is from Ambae Island, the original ���Bali Hai���, invented by American novelist James Michener and later popularized in the Broadway musical South Pacific. In her Port Vila-based business, Jenny has tried to re-create something of the small paradise for others to enjoy. Esline Turner Island: Vanuatu Business Name: EzyWash Laundromat The whirling sound of a washing machine is music to Esline Turner���s ears. This laundromat operator owns five washing machines and seven dryers, all of which are used to service her clients��� laundry loads. While running her active small business, Esline���s most pressing concerns are practical ones ��� machine maintenance and upkeep, and employee retention. Nadine Haines Island: Vanuatu Business Name: Air and Ice Solutions Nadine Haines established Air and Ice Solutions, an air-conditioning, refrigeration and electrical firm, in June 2006. Through this business, Nadine provides installation, breakdown repair and servicing of air conditioners, refrigeration and electrical services. Her five employees are mostly electricians servicing a range of different clients, including a 12-month servicing contract with Iririki Island Resort. Merian Numake Island: Vanuatu Business Name: Tanna Evergreen Resort & Tours In 1995, Merian and Sam Numake began Tanna Evergreen Resort & Tours, an accommodation and tour business. Around this time, a new airport was being built. Sensing an opportunity, the couple decided to build on Sam���s customary land for their venture. Merian says, ���We started from scratch ��� cleaning the place, landscaping and building. It took two years to establish a small restaurant, four modest bungalows and one touring vehicle, all one kilometre northwest of the airport.��� Patricia A. Willie Island: Papua New Guinea Business Name: Gaudi Kidu & Associates (GKA) Immediately after her husband���s passing, without adequate time to mourn, Patricia became embroiled in a contractual dispute that could have severely impacted her livelihood if she had not mustered the courage to fight to enforce the contract. Patricia knew her legal rights and put up more of a fight than the disputing party anticipated from a grieving woman. It is for this reason that Patricia has been able to successfully continue GKA the way her husband intended, and bring her own vision to the direction of the business. Janet Sape Island: Papuna New Guinea Business Name: PNG City Mother���s Business Foundation Janet Sape has six children and at one stage was supporting more than 50 children through her wantok (a system that acts as an unwritten social contract between those that speak the same language, to assist each other in times of need) 19 relations. In order to support all these children, Janet started and operated a number of businesses, from a mini-mart to a security business to a second hand clothes stores. After years of experience in running businesses and supporting so many children, it was only fitting that Janet would found an organization called PNG City Mothers��� Business Foundation (CMBF). Source: International Finance Corporation