Let's Go Local: Verata, Goldfish In A Pond- Filimoni Yaya

Determination and hard work led the way for Filimoni Yaya to the world's biggest humanitarian body, the United Nations.

Each time work got hard, Mr Yaya allowed himself some time off by visiting places that were calm and peaceful.

The 33-year-old believes seeing new landscapes in Fiji is therapeutic.

Mr Yaya is the head of Experiment at the Accelerator Lab, a project under the United Nations Development Programme, based in Suva.

He consequently works as a Geographic Information System (GIS) and data specialist at the World Bank Prior to joining the two organisations, he worked for the International Union for Conservation of Nature and The Pacific Community.

He is also a guest speaker/lecturer at the University of the South Pacific.

Mr Yaya is from the village of Nakoroyawa, in Nakasaleka, Kadavu.

Where In Fiji Would You Take Visitors To? 

Kabara, Lau.

It has unspoiled natural beauty and a rich reef system.

A beachfront on Kabara Island in the Lau group. source: www.seabedsfiji.com/cruises/lau-kadavu-discovery-cruise-11-nights/

Story by: josefa.babitu@fijisun.com.fj