This is the news report this week 

Here are some photos that are coming out 

This week we are putting new water lines to Jensen House

Here we have a wee chap who is  

getting a free ride

Here I am with Warwick and we have 2 bottles 

of sea water which we want to turn into drinking water.

This is a distillation plant which Warwick & Ely have paid

for which we have to ship out the Islands of Ambae & Ambrym

This is Gilbert Gibson he is a kiwi 

and a engineer of sorts, and builds these 

rocket stoves & distillation plants 

this is his design 

In goes the salt water

This is what the set up looks like 

Out comes the drinking water it dribbles out 

at 4 cups every 15 mins

OR 4 ltr an hour

Here is Warwick & Ely donating school resource for 

Macses school which Gloria has started helping out at.

This school was opened in Nov 2017 but is not yet registered 

with the MoE

OK for you bislama reader ,what does this sign say

This is the Marine Reach clinic, A picture

for Robin who is coming next month

We had a picnic at this beach today

and watched 10 baptism take place ,

The water was as warm as it looks

This is Global Mission truck in front of the 

Marine Reach vehicle 

This is the new uniform for VCH Hospital 

Monday Gloria's week started by been called into help at the hospital.

One of our work colleagues Father passed away on the weekend, 

as soon as the outpatients for Relief of pain were finished

we headed off to see the family and pay our respects. 

                   The  Hospital van didn't  show up to transport us, so we hopped onto two trucks .

we all gathered together on the road , the Dental and the  ENT clinic, with gifts of rice, vatu. mats                                                  and a flower wreath, and paid our respects to our colleagues father and                                                             family,  giving prayers and speeches to the family.

Tuesday was World Oral Health Day, down town at the market place 

Tents were erected and PCV Health and VCH Hospital joined together to run an awareness campaign 

offering Free Dental checks, Oral hygiene instructions,  Helti Kakae talks.

Gloria and two dentists arrived to help with the afternoon screening,  as we were seeing the 

outpatients up in the Hospital in the morning who arrive as early as 6am.

PCV  Team Morinda and Ravina on the awareness desk and giving out toothbrush packs and booklets

VCH dentists screening and giving out forms to patients, 

they will then attend a clinic up a the hospital for the treatment required. 

Wednesday Gloria was off to the school out at  Macses

catching a ride with Mr Kim and his builder .

This week the students got to try out some of Gloria's learning resources. 

A mini library was created in the class 

with students eager to look and try some reading skills 

                 Some tried  puzzles of word building,  and they set up the farm animals to watch,
                                                             so they could learn too .

and the "How to Draw" table was a highlight, with laminated pictures to copy.

One lovely picture was drawn of birds, by this student 

Last night we found a large hermit crab at our back door,

we don't eat them,  we found out they eat dog poo.

Thanks Dean (from Christchurch) for finding & sending over 

the NEW clutch plate for Noel's bike

It runs well

Margaret's husband & son work with me in Port Vila,

she needs the men to bring home a 20kg bag of flour each week 

so she can bake yummy fresh bread for their village

Noel is fixing the water leak we started this week .

I had to get a 6000ltr water tank this week for Tanna.

This makes 3 tanks in 2 weeks, we have now purchased

for Global Missions NZ

This is one of the earlier tanks we purchased 

which is getting ready to be positioned 

on site at Macses school 

Gloria with the Principal and some of the students

at a bush school called Macses 

New classrooms will be built this year on the 

site behind the truck 

We went to Eton beach village to inspect a project 

that Australia funded, in Oct last year

they still have a lot to do 

This church is part of the Eton Project

the ceilings have been replaced and painted

Our team members, arrived between 3-6 weeks ago.

we all get a 1 month visitors visa on arrival but, 

we now need to get a year's special category visa. 

This is Martyn & Annette with the Immigration officer filling out the forms

Noel moved this fan for a staff member , as it was directly

under the sun light cavity which gave a strobe effect and headaches

Our new toaster ( thanks Warwick & Ely)

Here is the windscreen of our truck.

drivers side

windscreen on my side !!

Children heading home after school

This in ground water tank gets water from over 1km away down hill

and is pumped by a sola pump. 

It had a good flow of water, it starts up about 9am 

and turns off about 3pm when the sun is low in the sky

We have just about completed this project 

at Lounasuenan village

 Two ships have arrived in Port in Tanna

Here are the passengers arriving at shore line 

from the Vanuatu cargo boat.

Here I am at the Tanna airport preparing 

to return to Vila on friday afternoon. The plane was delayed 

so my wait was now 6 hours.!!!!!!