Tuesday, March 22, 2022

Inclusive toilet gives Shirley in Vanuatu independence and dignity

Fourteen-year-old Shirley, who was born with Cerebral Palsy. Her condition affects her mobility and speech. For most of her life in Vanuatu, she either crawled, was carried or pushed in a wheelchair to get from one place to another.

World Vision-trained farmer's cocoa bean among top 50 in the world

Cocoa beans produced in Vanuatu by World Vision-trained farmer Moli have been named in the top 50 in the world. The Cocoa of Excellence Programme announced...

The bamboo tippy tip: a Vanuatu innovation

A community member from Yelkis village in southwest Tanna has created an innovative tippy tap using bamboo instead of the usual plastic bottles. Last week...

Disaster risk reduction messages help communities stay safe in Vanuatu

Vanuatu has experienced an increase in natural disasters over recent years. With the trend set to continue, those living in vulnerable areas will face many...

Clean water means a brighter, healthier future for children

Water is one of nature's most important gifts to mankind and essential to good health. For mother of five, Emma Noel, aged 35, the best gift for her...

The sweet taste of success

Malo Island is an hour’s boat trip from Vanuatu’s second largest town, Luganville. Here, in the past, many farmers chose not to prune their cocoa trees as...

Water is new life for residents of urban settlement

In a community on the outskirts of Port Vila, the capital of Vanuatu, accessing clean water has been a challenge for one particular family for the past...

Accessing clean water is a dream come true

Two years ago, a community on the outskirts of Port Vila, the capital of Vanuatu, was not only hit by Cyclone Pam but also with flooding since the...

A brand new kindergarten for Dora and her classmates

Two years after the devastating category five Cyclone Pam struck the archipelago of Vanuatu, its footprint in some areas is still visible including large...

New community kitchens in Vanuatu inspire women to dream of a better future

Sixteen months after tropical Cyclone Pam hit, nine community kitchens were built by local builders in nine communities on Erromango Island, a forty-five...

Cocoa farmer training changes lives in Vanuatu

Father of four Moli, 44, is one of the most successful cocoa farmers on the island of Malo, Vanuatu, where he lives. Back in early 2000, with limited...

Community members participate in financial management training

Healthy tide change in Seaside Paama

-By Terence Malapa Seaside Paama is awash with change after activities in the Port Vila Urban Development Project (PVUDP) have improved hygiene and...

Joseph Lob, water committee chairman and his family. Joseph was instrumental in his village’s recovery and rebuilding after Cyclone Pam

Water tanks and toilets: Rebuilding healthy communities one year after Cyclone Pam

It’s hard to imagine Joseph Lob’s face without a smile permanently etched across it and it gets even larger as he proudly recounts his community - Imapol...

The double-burden of disaster: Cyclone Pam one year on

This wet season in Vanuatu has been one of the driest of record. Small tufts of green grass try to poke through parched dry soil on the island of Tanna...

Cyclone Pam - One year on

One year after Cyclone Pam devastated Vanuatu, World Vision is assisting families with their long-term recovery from one of the worst disasters to hit the...

Growing gardens of change

In Penama Province, most families are subsistence farmers and there are few opportunities to enhance household incomes. With no formal marketplace...

Nearly broken: Feeling the effects of the El Nino

Lounapkiko is a very small, remote village characteristic of Vanuatu’s Tanna Island. Although less than 10 kilometres from the largest town on Tanna, it...

Play time and recovery time – School life six months after Cyclone Pam

Grant project name: Vanuatu Cyclone Pam Emergency and Recovery Response Funding source: Canadian government (Global Affairs Canada) Timeframe: March -...

Vanuatu - Journey to recovery - Six months after Cyclone Pam

Join us and reflect on Vanuatu's journey to recovery six months after Cyclone Pam as we look through the haunting images of devastation to the beautiful...

Five lessons learnt…Six months on from Cyclone Pam

As Cyclone Pam wrought devastation over the archipelago of Vanuatu six months ago, I and the rest of my World Vision colleagues became humanitarian...

Blog: Turning Hope into Reality in Vanuatu….Three Months after Cyclone Pam

You know when you remember something and some days it feels like it happened yesterday, other days it feels like it happened years ago and then some days...

Dancing for new life on Tanna: Three months after Cyclone Pam

Beneath a giant banyan tree that was lifeless and leafless three months ago, the community of Isaka on the island of Tanna dance below the lush new leaves...

Vanuatu: Regrowing, rebuilding, still smiling

Kaltang and Aaron have big smiles; they’ve just spent the morning watching their Mum, Tamanu, work hard in their garden where small seedlings are sprouting...

Growing healthy communities with healthy island food

White rice, two-minute noodles and poor-quality tinned meat. This is all that thousands of communities in Vanuatu affected by Cyclone Pam had to eat, until...

Early childhood education for life

Grant project name: Pentecost Education Begins at Home - Phase Two Funded by: The Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Time frame: 1 October...