Tin Band On A Mission To Help Members Go To School

If you’ve heard the endless rhythm of the tin bands around in your community, you know that they spreading the New Year spirit.

But for the Washington Tin Band group from Lami in Viti Levu, it goes beyond that.

Part of the money they earn from their performances is going towards towards education assis­tance for their primary and sec­ondary crew and the remaining for their party.

The group is in the Northern Di­vision to fulfil their mission. They were in Labasa on Wednesday and hope to go to Savsavu and Taveuni.

Band leader, Mosese Uluinaviti­levu, said they played in Viti Levu and finally decided to head to Va­nua Levu to experience the warmth of the people.

They performed at Labasa Town on Wednesday and a day later, en­tertained villagers at Namara, La­basa.

“We will continue performing for a couple of days before we return to Lami,” Mr Uluinavitilevu said.

Mr Uluinavitilevu said they ar­rived in Vanua Levu with hardly any food or much cash, only with optimism and believe that God would provide for their needs.

Firs time in Labasa

The entire team are first-timers to Vanua Levu or the Northern Divi­sion.

They started their tin band group in 2017 and performed initially for their community in Waigasa, Lami.

“We became viral on social media, so we decided to move out to towns to perform,” Mr Uluinavitilevu in­dicated.

They plan to complete their per­formances within the two weeks of this month.

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