Clarke Gayford finds a gulf between everyday life in Papua New Guinea and New Zealand.

NZ Herald Focus discusses the struggles of the people in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.

Ministry is concerned untreated water could harm New Zealand's natural environment.

COMMENT: Alex Waimora is from the Solomon Islands but has been living in NZ for four years.

Kiwi rapper Scribe will spend the next month in a rehabilitation facility.

Eleanor Barker checks into a waterfront room on an island kingdom.

We asked you to help people living in poverty in New Zealand's backyard - and you responded.

Settlements around Solomons capital lack power, running water and sanitation.

Kiwi Matthew Davison pitched the idea of getting photos of the inside of the crater.

Solomons' sole refuge at frontlines of fight to eliminate gender-based violence in world where woman rank below dogs.

In PNG studies show up to 67 per cent of women are the victims of violence.

The 42nd ASB Polyfest kicks off in Manukau this morning.

First impressions are of an idyllic paradise. But it soon becomes obvious that this village is living barely one step ahead of hand to mouth

Leaving home is the only option for many as the atoll faces the same fate as five islands that have already disappeared.

The warmth of the people is the winner, writes Guy Heveldt.

Young Samoan gang members sent back to their home country from New Zealand in a bid to straighten them out, are instead starting gangs there.

A teen's recovery from a second bout of TB is rare bright spot in battle to rein in the disease.

Some 60 per cent of Papua New Guinea's population live in areas where malaria is endemic.

Simon Day looks at how sport can help people out of poverty.

The three little pigs were part of a World Vision economic development project.

Villagers in PNG are changing their own lives, with the assistance of World Vision, reports Clarke Gayford.

Instilling the importance of nutritious food in families is helping improve health in communities blighted by overcrowding.

In the remote Barai village in Madang province, teacher Louis Kumana worries about his school's attendance rate.

Alice Unithy makes the one-hour trip down the Aluta river so her daughter can attend kindergarten.

International Woman's Day finds efforts to modernise traditional practices improving grim statistics around maternal mortality.

It started as a joke and ended with a journalist earning a namesake in Papua New Guinea.

Early in the morning, Jennifer left her village, in the isolated, mountainous province of Malaita and began her journey, alone, to have her baby.

Thousands of boaties swapped their old lifejackets for new in a Coastguard safety scheme.

Each day we report on a particular problem for the Pacific, showcasing how World Vision has helped. Today, fishing to survive.

Memorials and the skeletons of World War II armaments abound in the Solomon Islands, writes Emma Kemp.