A handful of street kids lie on mattresses in a small room grateful to be there.
Amani and Kara Waqetia have opened their own home up to Suva's street kids. Sometimes up to 30 will turn up on their doorstop.
Most of them use meth but not under this roof.
"It used to be glue and that was five years ago and now I'm no longer confiscating glue tins, I've started confiscating needles," Amani Waqetia told us.
He was disturbed at how the numbers of street kids are increasing.
"We are taking in these kids in our small three bedroom flat here but we only have one free bedroom." The couple never turn anyone away and are hoping they will be able to get funding to help set up proper accommodation that can give more beds to young addicts and dealers who are trying to escape the meth spiral.
"These kids need to be cared for, to be loved, to be understood, to be heard," Amani said.
One of the young men, we will call him Joni, said he became addicted after his parents died and he was left a lot of money. He hung out with the wrong crowd and spent it all on meth.
Now he has nothing.
"I was at a point I felt like giving up," he said. The Waqetias' care changed everything for him and he was able to get off the meth a few months ago and with their encouragement and care get a job. Not everyone manages to beat it.
Salvation Army Fiji head Phillippa Serevi estimates there are more than 300 steet kids in the capital Suva alone — and close to 1000 in Fiji. Most are using.
"So they were all into sniffing glue and now they've gone into meth," she said.
Salvation Army Fiji would like funding to set up a drug and alcohol centre. It came close to getting New Zealand funding but at the last hurdle said it was told by our Ministry of Foreign Affairs it wanted to focus on climate change instead.
Currently there are no rehabilitation programmes in the island nation but 1News understands the Fiji Government is in talks with the controversial Scientology church to run its "Drug Free World" programme here.
Three meth addicted sex workers told us they fear getting HIV.
One of them is pregnant and as I interviewed her it was clear she was high. She was distracted, shaky and wanted to talk to us but then couldn't — losing her words. She told us she got into meth through her friend and got hooked straight away. When I asked if there was anything that could help her she said "more meth".
We were taken on a drive through the small neighbourhood of Kinoya — there are three drug hubs, places where you can go to buy and consume meth. One of the houses was an empty two-storeyed home with a big gate that serves as a safe place for addicts and dealers to meet. Just down the road Tevita Lewetuitova, a Salvation Army officer, runs a boxing programme for the local kids to keep them off the street.
"Yeah we've got a problem," he said, "and the community is starting to feel the pinch the big pushers have moved away from the cities and come to residential areas where they move from the 50 dollars to 10 dollars a bag so easier for the young people to use."
He said most of it comes from the west of Viti Levu — the Nadi area — and he teared up when he talked about addicted kids. He knows first hand how hard it is.
"I've been there," he said.
The meth crisis was one of the issues on the agenda of Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka and New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon's bilateral talks.
Luxon said New Zealand is open to sharing support in the rehabilitation space.
"We spent a bit of time talking rehabilitation but more of it was about the security — the outside influences — pushing drugs into the Pacific and actually we need to do a better job and coordinate in a better way and build capability and push back against that."
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