Bula Vinaka!
"Bula vinaka" is a Fijian greeting that means "good health" or "good life".
It's a warm welcome that's often used to extend the greeting "bula," which means "hello" or "welcome".
FORGOTTEN FIJI
Bringing Healing and Hope to the Underserved of Fiji
Fiji is known for its breathtaking beauty. But beyond the beaches and resorts lies a growing healthcare crisis affecting thousands of families.
In cities, towns, distant islands, remote villages and mountainous highlands, many people struggle to access even the most basic medical care.
The Forgotten Fiji Mission exists to bring healing, compassion, and lasting healthcare to communities that have been overlooked for far too long.
2026 Mission Countdown
Day(s)
:
Hour(s)
:
Minute(s)
:
Second(s)
Two Mission Objectives
Provide free week-long medical and dental clinics for the public, complete with evangelistic outreach.
Build permanent clinics providing free medical and dental services including lifestyle education in underserved remote areas.
The Hidden Crisis
A Nation Beautiful - Yet Struggling
Fiji is famous around the world for its tropical beauty, but many families face a very different reality.
Hospitals and government clinics across the islands are often overburdened, understaffed, and limited in resources. Long wait times and shortages of medical professionals make it difficult for many patients to receive the care they need.
One of the greatest challenges facing Fiji today is the steady loss of trained medical workers.
Doctors, dentists, and nurses often leave the country in search of wages that can support their families.
As a result, many communities are left with limited access to healthcare.
For those living in the remote interior highlands, the situation becomes even more difficult.
In some areas, reaching the nearest clinic requires a day of walking across mountains and rivers. For many families, the journey is simply too far.
Treatable conditions often go untreated. Pain becomes a way of life. And help sometimes arrives too late.
Mission Teams
The heart of our work in Fiji lives in the hands of those willing to give—the ones who offer their time, their talents, and their compassion to those who need it most. If you feel that pull to serve, don’t ignore it. Step forward and apply below using the “Join a Mission Team” button.
Missionary Sponsorship
If you feel called to be part of the powerful work happening in Fiji but can’t go yourself, you still have the chance to make a life-changing impact. Through sponsorship, you can send a dedicated and willing applicant in your place. Step into that calling and use the “Sponsor a Missionary” button below.
The Nakavika Clinic
Our greatest goal is to build this clinic for all who need it—and the need is truly urgent. With your support and generosity, this vision can become reality far sooner than it ever could without you. If you feel moved to make a difference, give today using the “Help Build the Clinic” buttons below.
"Christ's method alone will give true success in reaching the people.
He ministered to their needs and won their confidence."
— The Ministry of Healing
The Journey for Help
When Seeing a Doctor Means Crossing a River 22 Times
In the interior highlands of Namosi, daily life is very different from what most of the world experiences.
Many families live as subsistence farmers, growing their own food and trading with neighboring villages. Transportation is rare, and income is extremely limited and for some nonexistent.
For many villagers, seeking medical care is not a short trip to a nearby clinic.
It can become an all-day journey on foot.
The path winds through dense jungle and steep mountain slopes. Along the way, travelers must cross rivers again and again.
One route requires crossing the same river twenty-two times before reaching the nearest road.
During the rainy season, these crossings become dangerous.
Still, people walk.
Mothers carrying children.
Elderly grandparents supported by family members.
Patients struggling through pain and exhaustion.
Sometimes pregnant women go into labor along the trail.
Families do what they can, delivering babies beside rivers or along jungle paths then continuing their journey toward help.
These stories are not rare.
They are part of daily life in the highlands.
22 Times!
"One Nakavikian villager–Nicola told us he traveled a day and a half by foot Suva simply to learn if his loved one in the hospital was still alive.
He waited two days for the information and had to sleep on a park bench."
The Mission
Healing the Forgotten Places
The Forgotten Fiji Mission exists to respond to this medical care crisis through compassion, medical care, and long-term solutions.
Each year volunteer teams travel to Fiji to provide free medical, dental, and surgical care to communities that might otherwise never receive treatment.
Working together with local leaders and volunteers, simple facilities are transformed into temporary clinics where hundreds of patients can receive care.
During these outreach missions we provide:
• Medical consultations
• Dental treatment
• Surgical procedures
• Health education
• Preventive care and medicines
But our work is about more than medicine.
It is about compassion.
Patients often travel long distances not only for treatment, but because they know someone cares enough to come from half way around the world.
Over the years we have witnessed lives changed, pain relieved, and communities strengthened.
Yet every mission reveals the same truth.
The need continues long after the team returns home.
"Medical missionary work is the right arm of the gospel."
— Counsels on Health
The Solution
The Nakavika Highland Clinic
A place where help is finally within reach!
Future Medical Clinic Site
While annual medical missions bring important, life-changing relief, they also reveal a deeper need.
The people of Fiji especially those in the highlands need consistent healthcare throughout the year.
Our vision is to build a permanent clinic in the village of Nakavika, located in the interior highlands of Fiji.
This clinic will provide ongoing care for communities that currently have no nearby medical services.
With your help, the clinic will provide:
• Primary medical care
• Dental services
• Preventive health education
• Maternal and child care
• Community wellness programs
• Training for medical missionaries
The clinic will also serve as a base for future outreach teams, allowing medical care to reach even more remote villages.
More than a building, it will be a center of healing, education, and hope.
Floor Plan for The Nakavika Clinic
"Where mothers once crossed rivers in labor,
safe births will now begin."
The Spiritual Foundation
Why Medical Mission Work Matters
Throughout His ministry, Jesus revealed the heart of God by caring for both physical and spiritual needs.
Scripture tells us:
"And Jesus went about all Galilee... teaching... preaching the gospel... and healing every sickness and disease among the people." — Matthew 4:23
Compassion and healing were never separate from the gospel—they were always part of it.
When suffering is relieved, hearts open to hope.
Medical missionary work demonstrates the love of Christ through practical service. In a tangible way we can become the healing hands and moving feet of Jesus.
By caring for physical needs, we create opportunities to share encouragement, faith, and the message of God's love.
Ways To Help
Be Part of the Mission
The Forgotten Fiji Mission exists because ordinary people choose to do something extraordinary: to show up and to care.
Here are three ways you can join us.
GO
Join one of our annual medical mission teams and serve directly in Fiji.
Medical professionals and non-medical volunteers are both welcome. There is plenty to do and everyone has a place to fill.
Send
Through the Worthy Missionary Fund you can sponsor a volunteer who has the skills to serve but lacks the financial resources.
$2,500 can send a missionary to care for hundreds of patients.
build
Help us build and operate the Nakavika Highland Clinic, bringing permanent healthcare to communities that currently have none.
The Promise
Our Commitment to the Fijian Branch of God's Family Tree
We believe every life matters to God—no matter how remote the village or how difficult the journey.
Through the Forgotten Fiji Mission we commit to:
Going where the need is greatest.
Bringing healing where suffering has been ignored.
Standing beside communities that have long been overlooked.
Our goal is simple.
That no mother must walk for hours in labor to find help.
That no child must suffer because care is too far away.
That no village is left without hope.
Jesus said, "For I was sick, and ye visited me."
— Matthew 25:36
The distance between suffering and healing can be twenty-two river crossings...
or one decision from someone like you who cares.