Vanuatu

Interview with an Oxfam partner in Vanuatu

March 19, 2015

Interview with Oliver Iato, Senior Extension Officer, Farm Support Association

Oxfam speaks to the Prime Minister of Tuvalu as food shortages loom in Vanuatu and Tuvalu

March 18, 2015

Aid is beginning to reach the hard hit southern Vanuatu islands of Tanna and Erromango, which both took the full force of the 250kmh Cyclone Pam, after rapid assessments of the islands showed absolute devastation with entire villages destroyed.

Growing concern for Kiribati, Tuvalu and for Vanuatu’s outer islands

March 17, 2015

As the death toll from Cyclone Pam begins to rise reports are now coming out of the small southern Vanuatu island of Tanna that there is almost no food or clean water and very little medical assistance for the 30,000 people who live there.

Hospital, morgue and schools all damaged by Cyclone Pam as help begins to arrive

March 15, 2015

Oxfam’s 10 person team in Vanuatu is reporting damage to major infrastructure like the hospital, the morgue and schools as the picture of complete devastation in Vanuatu now begins to unfold.

Crisis in Vanuatu in the aftermath of Cyclone Pam

March 15, 2015

Up to 90 per cent of housing in Vanuatu’s capital is reported to have been seriously damaged by Cyclone Pam, with still no information from the extremely vulnerable outer islands which are home to 33,000 people.

Stories of devastation from Vanuatu in the aftermath of Cyclone Pam

March 14, 2015

Stories of complete devastation are beginning to come out of Vanuatu in the aftermath of the severe tropical cyclone Pam. Oxfam staff on the ground in Port Vila have reported complete destruction of homes, three storey high trees completely uprooted and small communities with barely any houses left standing.