Advancing Health & Education in Vanuatu
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In an exciting and new kind of project for the foundation, last year we supported the professional development of two Ni-Vanuatu health workers by sponsoring their attendance at a two week long course in Melbourne.
We have formed an excellent working partnership with the Medical and Paediatric departments over the years, enabling us to reliably provide equipment otherwise impossible to access.
June saw the long-awaited delivery of our 50 emergency nursing packs, or ‘Rapid Assessment Kits’ as they were dubbed by staff at the Vila Central Hospital.
23 brand-new numeracy kits donated by MJF recently found homes in schools throughout Vanuatu, as part of Vanuatu’s Ministry of Education & Training’s gradual replacement of cyclone destroyed resources.
Senior students from St John’s Lutheran School, Portland once again donated $2,000 after collecting, bagging and selling sheep manure from under a shearing shed near Portland.
In an exciting and new kind of project for the foundation, last year we supported the professional development of two Ni-Vanuatu health workers by sponsoring their attendance at a two week long course in Melbourne.
We ascribe this kind of success to the MJF’s highly consultative approach, an aspect of our donation policy that we take very seriously. Every time a donation is made by the MJF, we make sure that the equipment or resources in question is needed by the relevant department, appropriate to the conditions in Vanuatu, can be repaired and/or maintained locally and is of a high quality. The quality thing is something we get asked about every now and then by people wishing to source second hand supplies for us to donate. In short, if an item is unacceptable for use in Australia, then it is also unacceptable for donation to Vanuatu.
