The people of the solomon Islands need your help in donating items to the National Disaster Council. Following their recent disaster, the phone systems are down, and a radio training centre has been set up to train the people in radio operation and electronics. This is being coordinated by the National Disaster Council, and their resources are coming from donations made from people such as radio operators in Australia.

Donations in Australia are being coordinated mostly by "Radio Sydney Australia", located at 2 Griffith Avenue, Roseville, Sydney, NSW. The operator of this station is Sam, VK2BVS, and he can be contacted on channel 12 AM(27.125 MHz) or channel 29 LSB (27.295 MHz) or channel 14 on UHF CB (FM) (476.??? MHz) Or phone (within Sydney) 9417 1066 (within Australia) 02 9417 1066 or international phone 61 2 9417 1066. Also "NES", Nicky. He is located at Eastwood (on Sydney's Northern Suburbs). Nicky is helping coordinate pick up and storage of items. The latest request is for water containers, of any size 2 litres and above. Juice and milk containers are perfect. Please make sure all containers have lids. So, instead of putting all your milk and apple juice containers in the bin or recycling, save them up and make contact with Sam or Nicky for a pickup.

Find out more about the Solomon Islands Peace Project and radio training centre at www.chrisgo.net