{"id":38314,"date":"2015-08-03T03:01:03","date_gmt":"2015-08-03T07:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/?p=38314"},"modified":"2020-08-13T10:47:38","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T14:47:38","slug":"coast-buys-safe-water-for-vanuatu-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/blog\/coast-buys-safe-water-for-vanuatu-village\/","title":{"rendered":"Coast buys safe water for Vanuatu village"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our Site Editor\u2019s Comment: \u201cThis type of spontaneous assistance occurs because of the high level of interest in and feeling for Vanuatu. It means that those with business interests here are somewhat cushioned from the effects of a rare natural disaster\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

SUNSHINE COAST DAILY: Nicky Moffat<\/em>, 2nd Apr 2015<\/span><\/pre>\n
THE generosity of Sunshine Coast residents saw three rainwater tanks donated to remote areas of cyclone-devastated Vanuatu just half an hour after a Facebook post went live yesterday.<\/p>\n
Bev Skinner launched a campaign within days of Cyclone Pam hitting Vanuatu last month, when she created the page Sunny Coast Helps Rebuild Mele Village, Vanuatu Fund.\u00a0\u00a0 \"WaterTanksforMeleVillage600[1]\"<\/p>\n
Water Tanks of the kind going to Mele Village, Vanuatu<\/p>\n
The idea was to set up a simple donation system that would allow her friends in Vanuatu, Stuart and Debbie Friend, to help rebuild Mele village and the more remote areas that foreign aid was not reaching.
\nAs reported in the Daily last week, Mrs Skinner and Vanuatu-based pilot Mr Friend had appealed to Sunshine Coast residents to help when Mr Friend found out a medical centre in a Ne Vanuatu remote village had lost its only rainwater tank.
\nThe cost of replacing it was $5,000, but on Wednesday Mr Friend found a cheaper option and reported to Mrs Skinner that he needed just $450 to buy a 500 litre tank.<\/p>\n
Mrs Skinner posted this news on Facebook and said three tanks were donated almost immediately.
\n\u201cTheir response has been awesome,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s absolutely worked a treat.\u00a0 I had three tanks within half an hour of me putting it online last night.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mrs Skinner said clean water was still severely lacking in Vanuatu.\u00a0 \u201cClean water is pretty important,\u201d she said.
\n\u201cIt (the tanks) will make for a more healthy lifestyle for these people over there, (who) are doing it tough at the moment.\u201d
\nShe said in exchange for the donations, school children would paint the donor\u2019s name on their tank before it was installed.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a little bit of fun for the kids in the village to do as well,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Mrs Skinner encouraged Sunshine Coast residents to visit her Facebook page and consider donating.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf they\u2019d like to have a tank named after them, that\u2019d be great,\u201d she said. \u201cThey\u2019ll get a picture and all this sort of stuff.\u201d
\n\"tank[1]\"
\nShe said she was glad to have started the campaign.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s turned into a really nice thing \u2013 they\u2019ll have something tangible in the village and we get to help,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
More then $3500 had also been donated toward the school in Mele, which was having its roof rebuilt, she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe roof of the school will be re-done, and it\u2019ll double as housing until such time as people get roofs back on the houses,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
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