Notre foyer, notre peuple

Catalina, 11, lives in Vunisavisavi, a small Fijian village that’s already seeing the very real impact of rising sea levels, coastal erosion and extreme weather. She is one of four characters we follow in Our Home, Our People, a 360-degree virtual reality film designed to tell the human story of climate change in Fiji. In the indigenous Fijian itaukei language, there is no word for climate change. Like most people, Catalina refers to climate change as ‘visau ni draki’, which directly translates to ’a change in weather’. Today however, these changes in weather can no longer be ignored as they affect the livelihoods of these resilient Fijians.