this percentage accounts for per cent of all outer island households and per cent of the households on the south tarawa ilo b similarly remittances from abroad in kiribati tuvalu and vanuatu are limited but in recent years remittances are on the rise in these countries due to labour migration to new zealand under the recognised seasonal employer rse scheme there is also evidence of reverse remittances where families send money from their home countries to relatives living abroad to help them cope with growing hardship adb b these local remittances are quite common in the solomon islands