Now let's go to Honiara in the Solomon Islands, where Tania Nugent talked to some bright young people about their hopes and dreams for the future.

Noelyn Wagapu: Hello, my name is Noelyn Wagapu and I come from the Solomon Islands.

Harry Alick: My name is Harry Alick.

Jean Sahu: My name is Jean, Jean Sahu. I'm 17 years of age.

Harry Alick: I'm 22 years old.
Noelyn Wagapu: and I'm 23 years old.

We do drama on radio. The subjects we cover are issues affecting young people, like drugs, alcohol and STIs (sexually transmitted infections). They are affecting young people here in the Solomon Islands.

It's all young people and we want to go out there and talk to young people rather than older people to young people. We think that peer to peer education is going to work more than older people talking to youths.

Jean Sahu: I've been doing speeches for my school and I once won a speech competition last year and they asked me to do one this year on the Commonwealth Day it was on the environment. We burn rubbish and that's not a good way, we should recycle rubbish. I could start small at my school -create a small group and teach them and from there spread it on to other schools.

Harry Alick: As a youth representative I go around to the provinces and seek the views from the youths in the provinces. Here in Solomon Islands the population is dominated by the youth.

There is a very big issue that youths in Solomons face concerning the system of government. It's individualism type of system, but on Solomons there are communal way of living so that's why youth within this country they are confused.

Noelyn Wagapu: In the future I would like to see that youths benefits more.

Harry Alick: I hope to become a lawyer - a constitutional lawyer.

Jean Sahu: In terms of the future I'm not really too sure about it but I'd like to do something in politics maybe.

Noelyn Wagapu: I want to see that youths come out and be good citizens of the country.