Here's How You Can Help Vanuatu's Victims of Cyclone Pam | RYOT News

Here's How You Can Help Vanuatu's Victims of Cyclone Pam | RYOT News: "With schools damaged and access to safe drinking water compromised, international aid organizations are stepping up with aid. Here’s whose work you can support:"



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Tropical Cyclone Pam: Vanuatu's government criticises aid groups over poor coordination of disaster relief - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Tropical Cyclone Pam: Vanuatu's government criticises aid groups over poor coordination of disaster relief - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation): "Food and relief supplies finally reached the southern island of Tanna on Wednesday, five days after Pam roared ashore.

However, many of the 80 islands that make up the sprawling archipelago remain without help."



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Aid workers are attempting to reach Vanuatu's remote islands to provide disaster relief - Newstalk

Aid workers are attempting to reach Vanuatu's remote islands to provide disaster relief - Newstalk: "Relief workers are trying to reach Vanuatu's remote outer islands that were smashed by a huge cyclone over the weekend.

The UN says 24 people are confirmed dead and 3,300 are displaced by the storm that tore through the South Pacific archipelago on Saturday."



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Vanuatu Students Plan Fundraising | Fiji Sun

Vanuatu Students Plan Fundraising | Fiji Sun: "The University of the South Pacific’s Vanuatu Students Association is planning to hold a fundraising drive on Thursday to assist their families back home who were affected by Tropical Cyclone Pam.

Association president Henry Bill said they plan to hold the fundraising at Sukuna Park in Suva."



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UN Conference Weighs Costs of Natural Disasters

UN Conference Weighs Costs of Natural Disasters: "As emergency assistance begins to arrive in cyclone devastated Vanuatu, an international conference on disaster risk reduction considered actions to assist threatened Pacific island nations in warding off future disasters."



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Cyclone Pam: Vanuatu death toll rises as Australia pledges $5m in aid – as it happened | World news | The Guardian

Cyclone Pam: Vanuatu death toll rises as Australia pledges $5m in aid – as it happened | World news | The Guardian: "Australia has pledged a $5m relief package, with foreign minister Julie Bishop saying up to 5,000 people would be assisted with food, water, sanitation and shelter. New Zealand announced an additional $NZ1.5m ($A1.44m; £750,000) of funding, on top of the $NZ1m signalled on Saturday. France is to deploy a navy frigate of relief supplies from New Caledonia."



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