Today is tank day

(not army tanks!!!)

We are repairing the tank, as it couldn't handle the water

that TC Donna poured down the down pipe

it broke loose

we cleaned this tank also

We put this mosquito door back on 

at Sutherland house

This is the old way to get fine sand

for plastering 

I'm searching for cheap toilets & materials

for the project at Jensen house

Today started well !!!!

we got a table made

we placed some out door furniture 

and secured it so it wont go missing....

Alice loves her new table for her container kitchen

Seaside school got another new classroom

The new classroom

And this is where the day just went from Good to BAD

we got news that some of the toilets

weren't working at Twin Cain's Apartments

we had to get the sucker in and spent hours 

getting the problem sorted

and removed

It was full to the brim

about 15 years of .......

not a nice smell

we rewarded our workers with a bag of Flour 

and rice 

Mr Willy (theTeachers Union President) is coming to Ambrym to 

attend the opening of the Dormitory at Assie school

along with Ps Allen Nafuki

The power meter to the containers has finally been connected

Alice & Arina can use the power to

make cups of tea and keep cold water !

"To Paul & Team from the Hibiscus Coast Auckland " 

we are pulling down the wooden shutters 

your team made last year for cyclone protection

They worked well!!!

We will be replacing this toilet when

the Moderator and his team arrive in August 

to do mission work at Jensen house

we are just doing preventative work 

until Moderator arrives 

A kitchen repaint is on the scope of work

and a kitchen bench will be also on scope of work

sometimes a picture speaks a thousand words

This is my friends Willy's son Bill

Bill  got himself on a bill board in Vila city

for Vanuatu Spring Water

You can see the dry season hasn't arrived yet

We would have like it to have arrived,

as the New Police commissioner 

was been appointed today.

The whole Vanuatu Mobile force are on parade.

I remember the day's of standing on Parade in the rain LOL

The head lines in the news paper today

We had a call in Jan 2017, from a group of NZ women wanting info to

bring sewing machines to Onesua College 

to teach sewing and they made it to Onesua

 (while TC Donna was here)

well done Ladies

Jonathan has organised training for Teachers 

to be Leaders & Managers of their schools

its a Vanuatu Qualification Authority program 

well done Jonathan & Jenita  PCVEA

This was Gloria's home for the week at Lamap Malakula 

A unused ward at the back of the Clinic. 

I took a water purifier in, we are now able to filter 

our water for outreach teams to have safe drinking water.

With no water in the accommodation, 

It as bucket showers all week from a full tank of clean water outside 

My bed in quite a large room. 

A door was put under my mattress to stop the sagging 

The kitchen in my accommodation,  

with NO gas or running water

So all meals were prepared, 

and cooked at the Clinic cookhouse by Jane and myself,

                                   
                                    Banana were the main food diet at Lamap boiled or roasted.

The rivers are up between Norsup and Lamap 

so no food supplies have come in by road 

since Tropical cyclone Donna

Dining hall, Gloria having breakfast with these dogs  x[8] 

which are Security on the Hospital grounds

Washing by hand at the clinics wash point 

                             

Neighbours , view from my back door, lots cows pigs, fowl, 

 all living together.

                                  

The Dental store cupboard is now complete, 

 with stocktake, and Inventory done

The Clinic is ready for a Dental team arriving in July 2017

                          

These fowls travelled back on the plane to Vila with me 

these are a birthday gift for a pikinini turning 6.

they came as a gift from the mother who is the nurse at Lamap. 

to her Daughter who lives in Vila.

                           

Gloria left for Malakula Lamap on Monday to Stocktake

 and complete the Inventory at the Dental Clinic

After a Delay and plane problem in Vila she was put on this small plane, 

like a sardine can all squished in 

They set off to the Island which took an hour to fly there from Port Vila,  

Lamap is in site ,so we will soon be landing. 

                             

A grass runway and we landed  safely,

                     

Our arrival at Lamap and now a truck ride to the Hospital clinic.

 This is the Food Market, Open on Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays, 

 at Lamap, with Banana and Island cabbage for sale,  

this is the main diet, with a few Avocado and oranges.

Cooking meals in the local kitchen cookhouse 3 times a day 

No power. Bucket showers,  but a flushing toilet. 

Home safe today on a bigger plane, and happy with the job done 

at the clinic, 

she  will post some clinic photo's tomorrow.