Small World Stories

02/04/2025

Meet hashtag ´ Sea Sistas!

🌊 🌊 🌊 Some say the Solomon Islands is one of the best places on earth to surf - and Nagarita Baea is making sure more people get to experience it. As one of the first women to qualify as a surf instructor in the country, she’s leading the Sea Sistas in breaking down barriers and creating more opportunities for girls to ride the waves.

For Nagarita, this work is personal. She says that growing up on the islands, girls and women "are often seen but not heard", making it difficult to step up or take on leadership roles. Through surfing, she’s changing that—helping young women build confidence, find their voices, and take their place in and out of the water.

In this new episode of Beyond Awesome, produced for Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), we join Nagarita and her team as they challenge gender stereotypes and open up the sport to everyone.

Watch the full episode and see why the Solomon Islands is not just a paradise for surfers, but a place where change is happening in the water.

27/03/2025

We are so happy to share with you EP01 of our latest short story from Beyond Awesome Series 2 That we produced with ABC Australia

With malnutrition rates among the highest in the world, we go behind the scenes of a popular cooking show in Timor Leste that is demonstrating just how easy it is to create delicious and affordable protein-packed meals. https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=709368368084236 ABC Asia

13/01/2025

Hi Everyone,
We really appreciate all our followers and supporters. It has been a great 14 year journey with you all here on Facebook.

However, all of us at Small World Stories find that META changes recently in regard to fact checking and diversity, equity and inclusion policies in contravention of our values, ethics and policies! We have noted the changes happening over time and have been concerned but this is the final straw for us both personally and as a company that values fact, truth and equality in all realms of life.

At SWS we believe in free speech, but such speech should be true and factual, and as such should be able to withstand a fact check. We see the removal of factchecking as being the harbinger of more miss and dis-information, something we believe needs to be fought tooth and nail at all levels.

Diversity, equity and inclusion policies, we believe are a corner stone of a fair and equal society and removing such policies leads only to inequality, sexism, racism and hatred based on differences.

As such we at SWS hereby are withdrawing any paid accounts or services with any Meta platform and will no longer use any of the paid Meta boosting or data services for us or any of our clients that we produce communication product for.

Furthermore we are currently assessing whether to close our pages on any Meta platform and focus on the non-META platforms that retain an ethical standard that is inline with our values and policies.

We will keep you informed and share our thoughts and decisions going forward.

We really hope you understand our position here and we hope other companies also follow this lead.
Thanks again everyone, talk soon
The Team

21/11/2024

Sometimes we need to travel far from our families to create more opportunities to help them.

Before coming to as a , Steve was a police officer in . For his family, he wanted to try something else, a different kind of work.

In , our documentary produced for ABC Australia, we follow people from across the as they travel for in rural Australia, capturing the realities of being far from home.

🎥 Watch The Season here:

All episodes of The Season can be watched on demand via iview (https://iview.abc.net.au/show/season) or on ABC Pacific.

🔗 Learn more about The Season here: https://smallworldstories.org/portfolio/the-season-australian-broadcasting-corporation/

15/11/2024

Rachel’s nervous. The harvest starts on Monday, and she’s in for . The hardest part? She misses her family.

, our documentary produced for ABC Australia, captures the realities of being far away from home and working in rural Australia.

We follow people from across the as they travel for work through the main fruit and vegetable picking season.

Discover the ups and downs that people from , and the face as they work throughout the harvest season.

🎥 Watch The Season here:

All episodes of The Season can be watched on demand via iview (https://iview.abc.net.au/show/season) or on ABC Pacific.

🔗 Learn more about The Season here: https://smallworldstories.org/portfolio/the-season-australian-broadcasting-corporation/

09/11/2024

Episode 3 of our 3-part documentary for ABC Australia, , is out today!

The harvest is coming to an end, and everyone is getting ready to go home.

As Mama Sue helps the workers pack, she is sad to see them leave.

Jojo returns to with a new plan, while Steve gets a surprise.

Selina, Rachel and Vicky go to Abu Dhabi with their teammates hoping to make history.

🎥 Where to watch The Season:

All episodes of The Season can be watched on demand via iview (https://iview.abc.net.au/show/season) or on ABC Pacific.

🔗 Learn more about The Season here: https://smallworldstories.org/portfolio/the-season-australian-broadcasting-corporation/

07/11/2024

Jojo is going to for . The trip will take half a year. Watch as he gets ready for the long journey.

follows people from across the as they travel for work through the main fruit and vegetable picking season.

Our documentary produced for ABC Australia captures the realities of being far from home and working in rural Australia.

It takes a look at the lives of people from , and , their dreams, and the challenges discovered throughout the harvest season.

🎥 Where to watch The Season:

Episode 1 and 2 of The Season can be watched on demand via iview (https://iview.abc.net.au/show/season) or on ABC Pacific.

🔗 Learn more about The Season here: https://smallworldstories.org/portfolio/the-season-australian-broadcasting-corporation/

02/11/2024

Episode 2 of our 3-part documentary for ABC Australia, , is out today!

With the harvest in full swing, bad weather wreaks havoc in and . Everyone is feeling the pressure.

Working day and night shifts, Rachel and Vicky struggle with training, while Selina has second thoughts about going to the world cup qualifier.

A new arrival brings renewed hope. Steve tries to change the difficult situation his crew faces.

🎥 Where to watch The Season:

Episode 1 and 2 of The Season can be watched on demand via iview (https://iview.abc.net.au/show/season) or on ABC Pacific.

🔗 Learn more about The Season here: https://smallworldstories.org/portfolio/the-season-australian-broadcasting-corporation/

30/10/2024

Here’s a peek behind the scenes of our latest production for ABC Australia, .

Filmed over 10 months, in the and , it’s been an incredible experience, spending time with our stars whose generosity of time and patience allowed us to capture the realities of being far from home and working in rural Australia. Thanks to everyone involved in bringing this production to our screens!

Lisa Hiller-Garvey, Nig Garvey, Malcolm Wai and Navaraland, Lara Damiani, Ben Forsyth, Folklore Sound, Joelle Baudet, Dahna Knight, Steve Cook and Macarena Aguilar. Special thanks to Sojo for his wonderful music and drone footage as well as Josh Rasu and Rachel Andrew for their filming in UAE. A huge and special thank you to the team at ABC Australia for making this possible in the first place: Fiona Yaglipinar, Nesryn Bouziane Evans and Anthony Stewart.

And also to Cricket Vanuatu, Tim Cutler and the ICC - International Cricket Council for their support. Thanks also to Leonard Ale, Steve Tafua, Selina Solmon, Rachel Andrews, Vicky Mansale, Jojo Sovik, Sue Ngahooroo, Nathan Folkes and Mojo, Valenta Langiatu, Mahina Tarimiala, Shania Kenni, Mahlon Poilopa who allowed us into their lives. And, Rodney Prestia and IComply, Red Jewel, Costa Berries and Redlands Fruit for granting access and support.

🎥 If you are in Australia, you can watch The Season on IView: https://iview.abc.net.au

📅 If you are in the Pacific, check out the broadcast schedule in your country: https://www.abc.net.au/pacific/abcaustralia

🔗 Learn more about The Season here: https://smallworldstories.org/portfolio/the-season-australian-broadcasting-corporation/

28/10/2024

26/10/2024

Today is the day! Our 3-part documentary for ABC Australia, filmed over one year during the main picking season in Australia, , is here!

In the series, we follow the journeys of people from across the as they travel to to work through the main fruit and vegetable picking season.

Capturing the realities of being far from home and working in rural Australia, The Season shares the stories of seasonal workers from , and , their dreams, and the challenges discovered throughout the harvest season.

🎥 If you are in Australia, watch on IView: https://iview.abc.net.au

📅 If you are in the Pacific, check out the broadcast schedule in your country: https://www.abc.net.au/pacific/abcaustralia



ABC Pacific, Lisa Hiller, Lara Damiani, Malcolm Francis Wai, Nesryn Bouziane, Fiona Yaglipinar, Anthony Stewart, Nig Garvey, Ben Forsyth, Joelle Baudet, Darren Butler, John Lo Piccolo, Leonard Ale, Mahlon Poilopa, Nathan Folkes, Rachel Andrews, Sarah Mansale, Shania Kenni, Sovik Joseph (Jojo), Tim Cutler, Vicky Mansale, John Hendry, Josh Rasu, Mahina Tarimiala, Mark Beresford-Murray, Neville Bell, Rodney Prestia, Selina Solmon, Sitiveni (Steve) Taufa, Sue Ngahooro, Valenta Langiatu, Damian leach, Patrick Manmelin, Semi Cain Banimataku, Rigobert Frank, Dahna Knight, International Cricket Council, Raf Mikolajczyk, Motion Focus Music, Audio Network, Marcelina Mete, Sovik Joseph, JipaJiroa Local String Band, Folklore Sound, Vanuatu Cricket Association, Stanthorpe Cricket Association, Redland Fruit, IComply, Red Jewel Nursery, Mojosurf, Costa Berries