TC Harold relief

Vanuatu’s Malekula boarding schools receive TC Harold relief food supplies

Malampa Provincial Education Office has requested that the assistance continue.

The school grants are yet to be released and most boarding schools on Malekula are facing difficulties securing enough food supplies to feed students, according a statement from the Malampa Emergency Operation Centre (PEOC).

After Cyclone Harold, Rensarie College administration replanted kumala, manioc and cabbage in preparation for re-opening of the school.

Controller of Malampa PEOC, Donald Pelam, encouraged the schools to start replanting vegetables and crops.

VASANOC provides sports merchandise to TC Harold victims

VASANOC donated the t-shirts via Red Cross.

The national sports organization’s CEO Henry Tavoa was delighted to do the handing over.

Harold was the first Category 5 severe tropical cyclone on the Australian scale to strike Vanuatu since Cyclone Pam in 2015.

TC Harold hit the northern islands of Vanuatu, flattening buildings.