To help for training engineering students in the Solomon Islands, a retired engineering lecturer have sent 10,000 pounds worth of training equipments. The training equipments will be used to train the students to teach how to service and use the machinery to welding, milling, cutting metal and drilling.

The retired lecturer, Mr. Albert Wilson who collected the training equipment use to work as vocational advisor in various developing countries such as the Cook Islands, Nigeria. He also worked in Solomon Islands from 1991 to 1996.

In the Capital, Honiara, of the Solomon Islands, he taught students at Collage of Higher Education. The country is situated at the east of Papua New Guinea and has a population of 500,000 people.

Mr. Wilson said that when he left the Solomon Islands in 1996, their training equipment was completely gone. After the civil war started on the capital island of Guadalcanal, due to which the equipment and the infrastructure was much more damaged. Previously he had sent training equipment to different countries as Romania and Guyana. He has collected the present material from his contacts, Gwent collages and businesses.