Dudley Hign School is a coeducational high school on Toorak Hill,

Suva Suva () is the capital and largest city of Fiji. It is the home of the country's largest metropolitan area and serves as its major port. The city is located on the southeast coast of the island of Viti Levu, in Rewa Province, Central Divi ...

Fiji Fiji ( , ,; fj, Viti, ; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी, ''Fijī''), officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about north-northeast of New Zealand. Fiji consists ...

that is run by the Methodist Church of Fiji and Rotuma. It is named after missionary sister, Hannah Dudley who dedicated her life to taking care of Indian women and orphans that were victims of the vicious indentured system that brought labourers from India to

by the colonial government. The indentured system brought thousands of Indians from India to Fiji under degrading conditions in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Dudley High School was established in 1897 by Hannah Dudley. The first classes were held under a tree. With more than 1,000 students enrolling annually, Dudley High School has become one of Fiji's large secondary schools. It has three primary schools namely, Annesley Infant Methodist School, Suva Methodist Primary School and Dudley Intermediate School. A Methodist chapel close by is also named after Hannah Dudley and is attended by the Indian division of the Methodist Church.

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