Lessons on Resilience
Vanuatu - an archipelago made up of 83 small islands that are of volcanic origin and cover around 12000sq kms. Around 65 of the islands are inhabited. The total population of Vanuatu is just over 200,000. Tanna, located in the southern province of Tafea, is my turangawaewae, the place I call home. Our families are scattered from White Sands, to Port Resolution, to Ietukwei, and further south to Kwamera - indicated in the red circle. Kwamera is where I spent a lot of my time, visiting six kindy houses, the teachers, children and families. The landscape is lush and green with mangoe trees and enormous banyan trees towering over the small thatched roofs that make up the many small hidden villages. There is no mobile coverage, no electricity grids, and the roads can be near impassable when the wet season turns the earth into soft mud that many a vehicle has fallen victim to. You can't help but see a strong connection between the rugged, remote environment a
