Jeannette Wallace, secretary of the Silae Vanuatu Market Vendors Association, said this became a “huge financial burden” for many of Vanuatu’s women vendors who relied on transporting produce to and from the market every day.
“This proved to be very expensive, especially when many people in Port Villa, also lost their job,” Wallace said. “The usual number of customers at the market [were] also reduce[d] heavily, affecting the vendor’s income per day”.
