AidtoVanuatu

In the last few weeks, Vanuatu was badly hit by, not only 2 Tropical Cyclones, but also 1 Earthquake! That is triple bad luck! During Covid, they already suffered a devastating TC, and received little help at the time because of the pandemic and some communities are still trying to recover from then!

Sailors visiting Vanuatu soon are in a unique position to bring necessary supplies to the local communities they visit.

Island Cruising is proud to partner up with The Grand Large Yachting World Odyssey 500, a round-theworld sailing rally, which will visit 7 islands of Vanuatu in May 2023 just a few weeks from now They will be arriving in Vanuatu much earlier than our Pacific Rally this season, and we've offered to help support their efforts to get some much needed items to the people in Vanuatu sooner rather than later

Their fleet of 20 boats already committed to bring emergency relief items like: Family Water filter kits, tool kits, Shelter kits, water storage solutions, solar lights and more that will be donated via Byond Disaster Relief NZ ... But we could do more with your help!

You can still be part of our team helping to support the people in Vanuatu. Please donate whatever you feel like to our campaign so we can purchase more solar lights & water filtration kits. We will send you updates with photos & videos so you can really be part of this mission!

Too often, donations end up feeding a heavy bureaucracy with too little trickling to the people in need :( We are transparent and keep things simple … We will make a video showing our meeting the communities and giving them what we brought from all of us participating in this mission! Link to the videos will be included in our updates The joy and relief we will bring, all together, will be worth any effort & generosity of our part !

This project has the support of Grand Large Yachting World Odyssey 500– Byond Disaster Relief NZIsland Cruising New Zealand (ICNZ) , Seven Seas Cruising Association (SSCA) – Noonsite – Bay Of Islands Marina in Opua, NZ and others

You can read more about the campaign here on Noonsite.

Please donate whatever you can to the cause here. All proceeds will go towards useful items for the people in Vanuatu.