Alison’s is another Solomon Island success story in progress, as she and her family strive to develop from humble beginnings, a fulfilling future that is attaining its full potential. Typical of most Solomon Island girls of earlier generations, Alison’s childhood and early development was in a small village setting where girls had their roll and were not encouraged to push the boundaries of that roll. Her parents were subsistence farmers/gardeners selling what excess produce they may have, to help educate their children. Her ‘Village’ is Dunde on the island of Roviana in the Western Province. Her early schooling was in Kokeqolo primary school which is part of the Uniting Church in Munda, Western Province.Alison completed schooling at Goldie College to the level then of ‘form four’ when she left at the age of 16 to get married in the search of some resemblance of meaning and security in her life.
Alison and her husband Jeffery worked at Eupi tourist resort Marovo Lagoon for some eight years, Alison in the administration as well as everything else she was called on to do including driving canoes. Jeffery was general maintenance and every other job he was called on to do