At least 12.500 children in Vanuatu have to start the school year in temporary learning centres after earthquakes in December destroyed or damaged over 100 classrooms

A call has been made to International Labour Organization to ensure fair pay, safe conditions, proper housing, medical support for Vanuatu and Pacific workers participating in the labour mobility schemes, one of the main drivers of migration in the region

Vanuatu Teachers Union has issued a nationwide call for all teachers in government schools to stay away from classrooms at the start of Term 3 saying the government hasn't given evidence of its announcement that 94% of teachers’ claims have been paid

80% of Ni-Vanuatu are farmers, and PM Jotham Napat acknowledged the work of these men and women, the backbone of the nation, during Vanuatu’s 45th Independence Anniversary celebrations

A seasonal worker from South Santo has invested around VT2,5 million, or €18.000, of his earnings, together with labour from community members, to build a gravity-fed water system for his village