Women’s Fund Fiji is the Pacific’s first national women’s fund. They are an agent of change influencing the flow of resources to diverse women, girls, and gender non-conforming people in Fiji.

As an empathetic and adaptive feminist fund, their mission is to influence and mobilise financial and non-financial resources for feminist and women’s rights organisations and movements, and their grantee partners, to progress the human rights of diverse women, girls, and gender non-conforming people in Fiji.

In July 2021, Women’s Fund Fiji approached us with a thoughtful project—an office mural that paid homage and farewell to members of their Transitional Steering Committee (TSC), who have been instrumental during their journey to localisation. The mural will be prominently featured in their new office space, reminding them of the contributions of pioneering women who steered the journey of Women’s Fund Fiji. 

After many discussions around visualising their mission, the team pointed toward the remarkable traits of a mangrove ecosystem. Mangroves are a common sight in Fiji and the Pacific. They are one of the most complex and vital ecosystems in Fiji as mangroves provide critically important resources for communities, and protect coastal neighbourhoods against the impacts of tropical cyclones.

Parallelly, the mural is a visual interpretation of Women’s Fund Fiji’s work in supporting feminist and women’s rights organisations to realise women’s human rights.

From young seedlings of the mangroves which hold vast potential to create power ecosystems in the future; the school of fish swimming together in synchrony—turning, twisting and forming sweeping, glinting shapes in the water, adapting to changing currents; the birds flying in the sky foreseeing the challenges; to the girl who demonstrates leadership by removing marine debris and protecting the ecosystem; the lady in pink collecting medicinal flowers for healing, restoration and nurturing individual and communicates to the vast boundless unwavering support of the sea itself—this mural is a symbolic representation that exhibits Women’s Fund Fiji’s deep appreciation to each member of the Transitional Steering Committee (TSC).