Jo Kafer Feb 23, 20207 min readBoundary Bugger-upsWe’d been in Vanuatu five days and had purchased a car. We were ready to start building the house. Then Joel delivered upsetting news....
Jo Kafer Jan 27, 20207 min readGoing Bananas! Life in VanuatuLife 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...
Jo Kafer Jan 26, 20206 min readEveryday water problems in VanuatuIt’s a glorious Sunday morning here. The jungle is glistening in the sunlight, rinsed earlier by a passing shower just before sunrise....
Jo Kafer Jan 16, 20205 min readRoast Pork & How The Pig Got its TesticlesStaff and students from Menindee in outback Australia spent time at Ekipe Centre School before heading back to Bethel Garden Restaurant...
Jo Kafer Jan 14, 20202 min readJungle food, Friendly Spiders and Banyan TreesOn the way to the Banyan tree, Silas and the boys harvested manioc. Joel found a pawpaw and whipped out his trusty bushknife to prepare...
Jo Kafer Jan 14, 20201 min readMagic Leaf Magic - VanuatuStudents and staff of Menindee Central School travelled 4000 km from their remote outback town in Australia to stay in a village at Ekipe...
Jo Kafer Jan 13, 20201 min readWelcome to the Jungle; Bethel VillageStudents and staff from Menindee Central School in outback Australia came to spend three days at Bethel village in rural Vanuatu. Bethel...
Jo Kafer Jan 10, 20205 min readMeet The FamilyI first met The Family in 2006. I’d visited Vanuatu earlier that year, staying in mainstream resorts. After that first trip I couldn’t...
Jo Kafer Jan 9, 20203 min readThe Rock FactorWe 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...
Jo Kafer Jan 2, 20201 min readDesert to Jungle - from one extreme to anotherAt 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...