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Suango Mele Primary School Re-building Buildings 2 and 3 – December 2015

Suango Mele Primary School suffered severe damage from Cyclone PAM. SHaRM members joined forces with Cyrille Mainguy, Engineer and Isabelle Henon (Ratua Foundation) to complete further works on the school.

Building 2 comprised of four classrooms which had completely lost their roof and all interiors and school equipment damaged or destroyed. With the assistance of four New Zealanders from Hastings, the Kiwis reroofed this block within three days. The combined group then went on to paint, replaster, install new loovre windows .Once the container from New Zealand had arrived, SHaRM was able to provide new desks, chairs and teachers equipment to enable classes to resume and the pikinini were able to vacate their tents which had been classrooms since March 13 2015.

Building 3 was a single classroom which although it had been repaired following PAM the reroofing was temporary and full strengthening was undertaken by the group and with the assistance of Volunteer Vanuatu and helpers from around the globe. Again the refurbishing was completed with new desks and chairs from the North Otago container of school equipment.

Just after Cyclone Pam
Just after Cyclone Pam
School children playing outside tent classrooms
School children playing outside tent classrooms
The work begins
The work begins
Classrooms being painted
Classrooms being painted
Water tank in place
Water tank in place
The work completed on the outside (headmasters house at front)
The work completed on the outside (headmasters house at front)
New desks and chairs installed in Building 3 following refurbishing
New desks and chairs installed in Building 3 following refurbishing
Stu cuts the ribbon at the handover
Stu cuts the ribbon at the handover
Helen, Steph and Robin with ‘thank-you’s from the children at the handover ceremony
Helen, Steph and Robin with ‘thank-you’s from the children at the handover ceremony

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SHaRM Pikinini Ecole Foundation, is founded to help the people of Vanuatu rebuild after the devastation of Cyclone Pam in March 2015

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On the night of March 13th 2015, Super Cyclone Pam hit the island nation of Vanuatu. Made up of 100 small islands, Vanuatu is the home of 250,000 people, many of whom live in traditional villages. Imagine being up all night as winds of 250kms pound your house and that of your neighbours. In the morning you go outside to find that somehow your house is still standing but those of your friends and family have literally ‘blown away’. No pots or pans; no knives and forks; no plates or cups. Your local school or kindy is now just a concrete slab without walls, roof, desks, chairs or books. This is what many people in Vanuatu faced in March. As a result, it is SHaRM’s objective to rebuild schools so that all children can gain access to an education. We are committed to helping this small island nation rebuild after cyclone Pam.  

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