The Vanuatu team needs to play in a minimum of twelve (12) FIVB World Tour Events each event costing the team close to 1 million vatu in airfares alone.
To date the girls have played in seven events and are currently ranked 22 in the Olympic ranking.
The top seventeen 17 teams (two from each country) will qualify through the FIVB World Tour Olympic ranking calculated by taking each team’s best 12 event finishes from January 1 to June 12, 2016.
Sponsorship from the National Bank of Vanuatu will help the girls to travel to the next events in China, Hong Kong and Mexico starting at the end of September.
Source:
Vanuatu Daily Post