Vanuatu celebrated their 40th Independence Day in July 2020 but it was a month of celebration for other reasons too. July 2020 emails to...

We got one dead in the village. This is how Mr Alick, the Class 5 teacher announced that one of the village chiefs had passed away. It...

Jalista turned one last week. She was born on the back of a truck at the Tagabe roundabout in Vila. Her mum, Lewi had been staying in...

There were no confirmed cases in Vanuatu as of March 19th. On March 20th it was announced that a man who just arrived from France, had...

Malowia Guesthouse is a modern, self-contained bungalow with a white sand beach and spectacular views of Nguna and Pele Islands, see...

We’d been in Vanuatu five days and had purchased a car. We were ready to start building the house. Then Joel delivered upsetting news....

‘Oli man kam sing sing Bonne Annee tudei blong haos blong Jo-Ann mo Apu Tim,’ announced Silas on the day we’d returned from Australia in...

06:00: There is a cyclone coming. It’s not officially a cyclone until it’s christened, probably later today. It’s busily sucking up warm,...

Life is short and you only get one go at it. Some of us dream of different ways of living. Choose a dream that sings to your soul and...

It’s a glorious Sunday morning here. The jungle is glistening in the sunlight, rinsed earlier by a passing shower just before sunrise....

Staff and students from Menindee in outback Australia spent time at Ekipe Centre School before heading back to Bethel Garden Restaurant...

On the way to the Banyan tree, Silas and the boys harvested manioc. Joel found a pawpaw and whipped out his trusty bushknife to prepare...

Students and staff of Menindee Central School travelled 4000 km from their remote outback town in Australia to stay in a village at Ekipe...

Students and staff from Menindee Central School in outback Australia came to spend three days at Bethel village in rural Vanuatu. Bethel...

I first met The Family in 2006. I’d visited Vanuatu earlier that year, staying in mainstream resorts. After that first trip I couldn’t...

We flew out of Vanuatu on the day that our visa expired, New Year’s Eve 2019. Ekipe Centre School had signed a three year agreement to...

At the start of 2019, my husband and I moved from Menindee; a small town in outback Australia to a village in a jungle on the island of...