The Koroipita Challenge
Donation protected
Thank you for helping us raise money to gift a Library & study space to Koroipita Village, Fiji.
Here you can sponsor Expedia Group team members participating in our employee Koroipita Challenge!
Expedia Group will match the first $2000 USD donated here!
Our Inclusion & Diversity team wants to directly aid an indigenous community impacted by climate change this August in honor of World Indigenous Peoples Day. Rising sea levels and storm surges are tragically common issues faced by many rural and island indigenous communities around the world.
Introducing The Koroipita Challenge! Throughout August, Expedia Group employees around the world will virtually travel from EG HQ in Seattle allllllll the way to Koroipita Village in Fiji! That's right... 'just' a mere 9,389 km/5,834 mi.
- Participating employees are individually running, walking, swimming, cycling, knitting and much more to contribute to our team goal.
- Each participating individual's physical activity in the month is added to our target.
What is Koroipita Village?
- The village was started in 1985 with hopes to “eliminate sub-human living conditions in west Viti Levu by providing basic cyclone-safe homes, clean water and living essentials.”
Today it has 1017 homes and offers important solutions for managing rural/urban drift in Fiji to poor families and for the resettlement of climate refugees (families who have lost their homes due to climate events). It offers cost-effective safe housing and family advancement in a clean and green environment, to help families get back on their feet. Learn more.
- Koroipita have an increased number of youth, who are living in tight quarters with their family with nowhere to study. It has become very clear that Koroipita needs to support its students, steering them away from crime and missed-education. We have collective hopes to raise enough funds to gift a library & study space to the village!
If you are an internal employee at EG, please donate through the internal portal.
Thanks for helping us gift the library to Koroipita Village - we are eternally grateful!
Fundraising team (6)
Grace Rietbergen
Organizer
Annandale, NSW
Tracy Salyer
Team member
Karen Tocher
Team member
Molly Morris
Team member
Madison Andrew
Team member