The 13 best pictures will appear in the 2011 MoneyPACIFIC calendar and the winners will receive a $100 prize from Westpac NZ while the photographer whose photo is selected for the calendar cover will receive a return airfare to either Samoa or Tonga with Air New Zealand.

Ministry of Pacific Island Affairs project manager of MoneyPACIFIC, Kim Hailwood, says the calendar aims to provide simple but important tips to increase Pacific peoples’ financial knowledge and awareness. These are expanded in a series of advertisements running on Pacific radio.

‘Last year we produced the first-ever MoneyPACIFIC calendar, which has as its point of difference a financial tip for each month. Pacific Island communities in New Zealand, Samoa and Tonga snapped it up. This year, we’re planning to double the number we produce, printing 70,000 bilingual copies in Samoan/English and Tongan/English,’ Ms Hailwood said.

Photographs must have Pacific community, church, school or family groups at their heart and must be taken either in New Zealand, Tonga or Samoa.

The competition closing date is Tuesday 31 August 2010. Entry is free and contestants can enter up to three pictures.

MoneyPACIFIC is a multi-agency project jointly supported by the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, Ministry of Pacific Island Affairs, and the New Zealand Aid Programme.