Kasimiro Taukeinikoro is the owner of Rivers Fiji (Upper Navua Conservation Area - UNCA).
Before COVID-19, his team operated rafting activities three times a week in the UNCA with international tourists, but also multi-day camping and cultural trips and employing 18 local river guides and 3 office staff.
After COVID-19 hit, business as usual stopped due to the closing of borders.
Kasimiro shifted his business model to domestic tourism and reduced his activities prices to 75% the usual costs to keep paying his guides (no benefit for the company), helped the efforts of the Ministry of Health to carry the vaccines on a volunteering basis to remotely located communities difficult to access (through the Duavata Collective), consistently supported the conservation efforts of the UNCA, notably via the EcoChallenge races involving young people of the communities.
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