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Thursday 7 May 2015

Vanuatu 2015

Vanuatu is a beautiful and diverse paradise in the heart of the South Pacific. Roughly 2hrs flight from Fiji and close to Australia and New Zealand.

Each year a group of Year 10 Emmanuel students travel to Vanuatu on a mission trip to be immersed in a different culture for  a few weeks and experience traditional customs, try local cuisine and enjoy snorkeling, shopping and the sights and sounds of a tropical climate.  Once again we will be traveling to Port Vila in July 2015 then onto Nguna Island - just North of Efate to work with the local villagers in many practical ways.

Whilst in Vanuatu we are hosted by an organization called Volunteer Vanuatu (www.volunteervanuatu.org) who are  a non-profit community association dedicated to cultural, community and business development in Vanuatu. They partner with Government, village chiefs and councils, business, schools, churches, community groups, families and individuals and aim to bring awareness, intervention and solutions for some of the felt needs of the people of Vanuatu.

Same Church after Cyclone Pam 2015
Church on Moso Island 2014










Vanuatu has just fought off a Cat5 Tropical Cyclone. With minimal Government preparedness and a majority of Vanuatu's population living 'Traditionally' in makeshift houses and relying on the land for food and water. A Cyclone this size is a disastrous event. The potential effects from the Storm, and it’s reported +12ft surges means there will be lack of food, clean water and many villages, by nature are on the ocean.

Cross Country Tuckshop
Traditionally as a school we raise $2000 to purchase materials needed to build a water tank. This year we would like to raise much more to help these beautiful people rebuild their homes, businesses, churches and essential services.

To date we have sold chocolates, held tuck shops at sports carnivals, various lunches (pies, pizza, BBQ’s etc.), sold gingerbread houses, free dress days & Easter eggs guess and raised $2760 - great effort so far!



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