World Vision Vanuatu

World Vision Vanuatu's Helen Corrigan, who is the organisation's Tropical Cyclone Judy and Kevin response manager, said on top of the situation faced by children, some families were still living in evacuation centres as their homes were destroyed.

Corrigan said the focus for World Vision is on suppling seeds so communities can re-grow crops.

She said while food supply was still an issue in parts of the country and there was a lot to rebuild, children were learning.

“With just under a month to go, the Laetem Dak Kona (Light up the dark corners) survey has covered 77% of the total population of SANMA and 88% of the total population of TORBA.

This totals up to 43,682 people covered by the enumerators who are working on 134 house holds per day” World Vision Vanuatu stated.

Enumerators are carrying out the survey for 4 months beginning 8 April in the two provinces of SANMA and TORBA on a total population of 64000 people aged 5 upwards.

LDK which means to lighten up the dark corners, is a project funded by the Australian government through the Water For Women Fund.

World Vision said the survey will provide much needed information on the number of people living with disabilities, the type of disabilities prevalent, and the various WASH accessibility and identify barriers within the two provinces.