Today March 6 2008 marks second birthday of the TARD homepage

The To'abaita Authority for Research and Development (TARD), a student initiated volunteer group developed from scratch in late 2005 by North Malaita Constituency scholars at the University of the South Pacific in Suva, marks its second year of providing up to date news to Solomon Islanders abroad through its homepage today, March 6.

TARD which now enjoys an influx of online visitors from around the world first published its homepage on the 6th March 2006. Since then, the site has voluntarily continued to publish up to date information, news and achievements of Solomon Islanders over the last two years.

The number of online hits on the TARD homepage has now reached an average of 120 per day.

However, the most crucial element of the TARD homepage is to aware potential and existing donors about the voluntary work that TARD is trying to pursue for North Malaita communities in terms of making a small difference to the lives of rural people. In addition, since the inception of the TARD homepage it has linked all To'abaita and Baelelea scholars and elites throughout the world to a common avenue of discussion and chatting thus creating a new cohort of friendship and useful long term relationship.