but, what about the years of rebuild ahead? how can we

But, what about the years of rebuild ahead?

How can we help our RSE workers and their nation?

Facilitated by Fruit of the Pacific KYLIE DELLABARCA STEEL | Phone: 027 286 7993 | email: [email protected] | web: fruitofthepacific.org

On 13 Mar 2015, Cyclone Pam devastated the nation of Vanuatu. Emergency aid is now focusing on the immediate needs of people.

Partnership Proposal:

GOAL: By partnering Te Puke businesses, organisations & individuals with communities from Tanna, we can send our Ni Van RSE workers home equipped, resourced & with hope to rebuild their communities!

Resource Partners:We are looking for businesses or organisations that would like to partner with the Te Puke/Tanna Partnership programme by providing rebuild resources as donations or at cost price. Key resources we are interested in are:

Water retention or puri!cations systems Solar power systems Gardening materials — seeds, hand tools, power tools Materials to rebuild homes, kitchens, latrines

Village Partners:We are seeking groups who would actively like to build a relationship with a speci!c community and support their rebuild initiatives over the next three years. "is commitment would look like:

Building relationship with village reps while they’re in New Zealand Procurement support — helping source rebuild resources Fundraising initiatives to help purchases resources Support co-ordinating resource distribution

Skill & Knowledge Support:Rebuilding a community takes speci!c skills and knowledge. We are keen to continue to empower the RSE workers to take home new abilities that they can share amongst their own communities. We are looking for people with a desire to share knowledge that will help with the rebuild e#orts.

Training may include areas such as: Health care skills for a$ermath of a disaster Sustainable rebuild ideas (housing, latrines etc) Food security Solar initiatives Smokeless stoves

Fruit of the Pacific will be facilitating this partnership programme. We are a charitable trust that has been successfully delivering educational programmes to hundreds of RSE’s over the last 4 years. To date our programmes have focused on:

RSE workers have been supporting the Kiwifruit Industry since 2008, coming here each successive season, working in both packhouse and orchard; picking, packing and pruning. A signi!cant group of them come from Vanuatu and work locally for a number of our growers and largest post harvest providers.

Tanna was the worst hit island, enduring over six hours of Cyclone Pams severest winds. 80% of dwellings were destroyed. Village upon village has been le$ without the basic necessities of shelter, water and food. Aid agencies are providing the initial resources, but the rebuild will take years.

"ere is a large group of Tanna residents and families amongst our RSE’s as 450 were

Financial Empowerment: Programmes have catered to the needs of the learners from basic goals and budgeting through to business mentoring. Our business and entrepreneur development programme focused on creating new business ideas and improving existing businesses, while strategic accounting and !nancial management was covered in a book-keeping programme.

Community Development: Community development is at the heart of all of our programmes, and speci!cally in our nationally delivered ABCD (Asset Based Community Development) Programme. "is programme has helped over 700 participants identify the assets, resources & value they have in their home communities.

Health Awareness: Lack of public funding for health education in the remote and rural areas is a real issue facing the Paci!c islands. Our Oral Health Promotion programme has grown into an international success story, where a team of over 10 Ni Vans are now equipped and delivering a message of how to clean teeth to children all over Vanuatu with partnerships including Colgate, PCV, World Vision, Marine Reach and the Butter%y Trust. To date they have reached over 12,000 children and adults and have plans to reach another 30,000 this year.

Why a Te Puke/ Tanna Partnership?

recruited in the !rst year of 2008, and this relationship has been enduring. Many of them have still not had contact from their families. All they know is there is nothing le$ of the e#ort they have been putting in to building their livelihoods over the last seven years.

"ese are people who live and work in our neighborhood six months of the year. Right now, we have an amazing opportunity to reach out to our neighbors in this time of desperate need. By co-ordinating a district-wide partnership with Tanna at a village level we can leverage the resources we have readily available in Te Puke to supporting an island that has supported us for so many years.

Te Puke / Tanna Community Partnerships

Statistics & Messages fromTanna Communities (ref: Map, pg 4)

North Tanna Communities

A. Green Hill CommunitiesLaunalang — Daniel Kapalu Numake (8 households) | Launapuas — Rosie Charley (9 households) | Lamasinganu — Je#ry George | Green Hill Village — Marie Iakolio | Launengamben — Jennet Nakapue Imnakiep — Jenny Samuel (5 households)"e news about our families during the cyclone was very hard. When the cyclone started to hit them there was no rain, the wind came on every direction and the trees started to broke down and the houses started to broke. It was a terrible time for our families, they have to move from house to house trying to saved their lives. But hopefully they all saved. But only houses are all smash down, every tree is brok down. Our families are very need this time — no house for sleeping for us. We don’t know and never know what is desert, we just know about desert a$er the cyclone pam.EP TP — Daniel, Rosie, Je!ry, Marie, Jennet, Jenny; EP Opo — George, LIna, James; EP KK — Meriam

B. Lomakaun Community On our island Tanna, 14 March 2015, that was on a Saturday morning on 5am storm got started. From that moment of time for 2–3 hours every person in the community started to run from house to house to save their lives. And in my community we have 450 people.From 8am – 4pm the storm has been swept away every local houses and some of the houses with iron roo!ng. "ere was le$ only !ve concrete houses and these !ve concrete houses save 450 people in my community. We have some important buildings in the community which the storm has swept away. Our AOG and Presbyterian churches, our kindy house and our chiefs centre. But every building has been swept away by Pam. Every crop in our garden has been uprooted and our families are !nding it very hard to !nd food and other materials. And that’s all about my community. Above all of this, my community is always look up to our heavenly father who is in heaven.Baygold — Dick, Meta, Sam

West Tanna Communities

C. Lounaparu CommunityTotal population: 120+. One school, one kindy and three churches are all damaged or destroyed.Solar and water amenities have all been damaged.In our area, most of our houses are made of local materials, which most of it was blown away during the hurricane. We have at least one permanent brick house which more than 60 people, our relatives, had to !nd shelter during the hurricane. Some of them are still living there, since we can’t build new houses due to lack of materials.EP TP — Lona Jimmy, Nalawas Jimmy, Sam-Pierre Jimmy, Soude Sam, Gibson Yauko


D. Letaunalul CommunityWe live in a small community of 56 people in our village. No every house has fallen down and the kindy fell down too so there is no school for the children. We now have to walk down the hill to the beach for water — its about 12km.Baygold — Nalaw Tapis, Peter Kapalu

E. Yeba CommunitiesPopulation: approx 600, three Villages: Lounapik Tuan, Lamroa, Lounapkamie, LoukueriaWe built our houses out of local materials which is not strong but it is what we can a#ord. "ese houses did not stand up to the force of Pam and now our homes are gone. During the cyclone 27 of us stayed in our brothers house to hide and be safe.About 5am the forces became stronger and our houses were !lled with water. All the local houses fell. My sons were crying and I don’t know what to do. I took them to our shop building. My wife was holding one door, I was holding the other. Two days later I went around the homes, you couldn’t imagine it is very hard to start to rebuild again. Now no wood le$ for local houses and shelters, even no water so now I am so worried about my families as I am in NZ. It would help us in the future to have three strong shelters to keep people safe during the cyclones, as well as water tanks for a$er.EP TP — Numake Mahau, Sophie Sanga, Annie, Ruth, Andrew Niminak, Enosie, Joe Iautu, Ruth Iamar, Peter Iauiap; EP OPO — Lillian Naket, Nipeina Naket, Linet Naket

F. Ipai CommunityFollowing the cyclone which just past, our communities don’t have any houses, and we !nd it hard to make new ones, the food also %ew all about. Our water tank where we got water is now broken. Our church has fallen down. It’s hard to get water, we walk about 10km to get water and then carry it back up the hill. We no have no hope to build a house — the iron was blown o# and %ew away which we can’t !nd to bring back. "e communities now !nd it very hard to build their houses again. Baygold — Daniel Yonam, David IowIow; EP KK — Moses Shel, Hellen Iaruel, Jimmy Kawas; EP TP Naswaiu Hellen; EP Opo — Ella Nako

G. Lowkatai CommunitiesIn my community the population is about 400. We have two church dwellings, a school and a water project. During the cyclone we lost everything except the water project. All the sleeping houses are damaged so the people are safe in one of the classromms that didn’t get damaged. "e water was e#ected but the people had to boil it. "e people are still using the school building but because of the Government relief they broungth them some tarpaulin. "is is the worst hurrican I’ve ever seen since I was born. But I’m happy we didn’t loose one of the community people, they were safe, so thank God. EP — Asel Iamak; Baygold — Iata Iamak, Bradley Iamak, Tom Nurak…+++


H. Letawus Communities

Cyclone Pam has really damaged our community and now everyone stays safe in one house. From the cyclone every house has been damaged or destroyed. Worst is that our Presbyterian church has been badly damaged. Every man, woman and child all stayed in three houses during the time the cyclone hit Tanna. It’s the same with many other communities, and even a month later nothing has changed.Baygold — Johnson, Tom, Joseph, Kelson, Joe

Middle Bush Communities

I. Ilmanga CommunitiesOur community has been badly damaged by the strong winds and the rain. Every house has fallen down so we all had to rush to the school. Every food was taken so they don’t have any roots any more. "e water is dirty so we have to use the water from the school for cooking, showering, and cleaning our clothes. We are going to !nd it hard to rebuild our houses because the iron and nails have gone and we can’t get them back. For that reason we are all sleeping in the school and in make-shi$ tents. Baygold — Fleix Sam

J. Loueao Communities In our area during the time of Cyclone Pam every house has fallen down, two church houses have fallen down, two schools are destroyed except for three classrooms, also our clinic, and all our gardens have been destroyed. So now our families have no where to sleep and no food to eat. EP — Loise, Marie, Joel, Peter, Emery; Baygold — Phillip

K. Lamnatu CommunitiesA$er the hurricane has passed there are no local houses, the concrete houses have damaged roofs — they are damaged good. "e majority of family, about 40, all stay safe in one small house. Our families stay with other people and the garden and all our produce (maniok, kumala, yam, taro) are all gone. EP TP — Roslyn Sanga, Anna Natiang; Baygold — Joshua Niere, EP KK — Melinda Natiang, Joshua Iauilu

L. Lamlu CommunitiesLamlu community consists of !ve Villages which were badly damaged by the cyclone. "ere is no more coconut leaves which we use to build our local houses, maybe we need something like a strong community building for the beginning while we wait for the coconut plant to grow. More than 100 people are currently sleeping in two of the classrooms in the local schools which su#ered the least damage. Our community really need food and water too — all our crops are gone and there is nothing to eat at the moment.EP — Jimmy Ernest, Jerry Iaupam, Johnny Yalulu


M. Natuar CommunitiesOur community consists of 400 people including kids. We have three churches, two were damaged by the cyclone. We have an aid post and it was damaged too. Water source is very important to our community, every water tanks were all damage by the cyclone, we are starving of drinking water. At the moment we all lost our houses and water tanks. Energy, we lost all of our solar for giving us lights, charging phones and laptops. Toilets — we have 16 bush toilets and they are all gone by the cyclone. Inside my community we had a big market house and it was gone also by the cyclone. And we have three stores and they are all damaged. Our gardens full of yam, taro, kumala, panama and cabbage — every food crops were all damaged. If you watch the TV about the cyclone in Vanuatu Tanna, that is my home and my community, we really need your help and support.EP TP — Willie Ialu, Meriana Iakapas; EP Opo — Willie Nase, Katir Nauka, Isaac Iaput, Charlie Lava, Naripo Jack, Jack Kaual, William Natuman, Jimmy Julie, John Tantan, Willie Iavis, Merian Katina, Daniel Jimmi, Jack Iasukapil.

N. Laruanu Communities A$er the hurrican pam passed by there are no more local houses and some of the concrete buildings are also damaged badly. Most of the families now !nd shelter in the school buildings. "e main things we need quickly is some water tanks and good strong houses.EP — Michael Heput, Maninna, Nale Jimmy, Al"ed Hiwa, Erick Naieu

White Sands Communities

O. Kings Cross Communities Iatapu: 300 people | Lauer!: 300 people | Lautapunga: 200 people | Lamanaruan: 200 people | Launengi: 100 people Waisisi: port"ese six areas face bad conditions in damage of houses, which there are no more houses standing and no more water and food at the moment. To tell the trust those areas are now facing starvation and thirst. Out of those areas, I am the only one that is in the RSE workers to join the company in NZ which is why I am asking for help so that I can help my families back in these six areas where I am from. EP TP — Ruth Pita

P. Lounou CommunitiesLonasuanan Village: 200 people | Lopalie Village: 50 people | Loono Village: 250 people | Ilareng Village: 200 people Enalouginia Village: 220 people | Enamaltu Village: 100 people | Emalet Village: 50 peopleMy name is Marcel and I come from east tanna in white sands area. But I was in Port Vila since the RSE programme. While I’ve been coming to NZ I have attended many programmes run by Fruit of the Paci!c, incluindg computer,


leadership, goals and budgeting, maintenance, bible studies and one very important dental programme. We formed a team (VOHA) — Vanuatu Oral Health Awareness and have been running oral health programmes in schools all around Vanuatu. I got to go back to Lounou with this programme. Lounou is the centere of six villages and is close to the volcano. It had a bungalows for tourists. Since Pam, there is nothing much le$. We have not heard from anyone there yet, but we have seen the stories on the news and know the situation will be bad — everything totally damaged and destroyed.EP TP — Marcel Nalau; DMS — Willie Tom, Johnny Nakau, Robert Iakoli, Nase Edian, Andrew Saparino, David Yassi, Kawia David, Robert Delmov, Daniel Kahie

Q. Sulphur Bay CommunitiesSulpher Bay, Imale, Ienukuli, Ienumakiln, Ianumalta, IpikakinFrom Vanuatu, Tanna. A$er hurrican Pam we are homeless, the people from Tanna need help, no houses, no food, no water and I just ask if there is anyone in God please help these areas.EP TP — Jonathan Tiru; EP KK — Matilda Naukaut; EP Opo — Jean Lamai, Letty Kiel; DMS — Iaseru White

South Tanna Communities

R. Yenhap CommunityI am Christopher Nakama. I’ve got !ve brothers during the cyclone all our houses are gone. To build our new houses we using the coconut leaves but the cyclone has damaged every leaves. Everyo one of our houses were damaged by the cyclone were all local or grass houses, except our church house is permanent which was ruined by the cyclone. I le$ my community a$er the cyclone and walked to the airport to come to NZ. I have not had contact with my family since I le$ them.EP — Christopher

S. Green Point CommunitiesCyclone Pam has really damaged our houses — there is 121 people in our community. Now without houses.Baygold — Jack Naumany

T. Kwamera CommunitiesI’ve got 34 in my small community Lonu which is in Kwamera. "ere are seven households with houses before cyclone pam, but a$er only two are still standing — one house is holding 23 people, the other 11 are sleeping in the other house. So Cyclone Pam has really spoiled our community and damaged the coconut and food. Our families are all now facing a really hard time especially housing. Baygold — Harry Waiwai

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