Cyclone Pam and Vanuatu

This week we have been watching some videos and looking at photos of people in Vanuatu, who have lost everything they own in the Cyclone.  Schools and houses were washed away and now there is dirty water and very little food. We chatted online to Jackie from UNICEF NZ and she told us that 128,000 people have been affected by the Cyclone and 60,000 of these were children.  UNICEF are providing tents and tarpaulins for shelter, soap to wash hands, water purification tablets to make the water clean and food.  The best way we can help is to donate money to pay for these necessities to help people to survive until after the clean-up and rebuilding has been completed.

We wrote about what we would do if we had $100 to donate to the people of Vanuatu.  Then we decided to raise $100 so we could send it to UNICEF as our donation.  Today at school we made 100 bags of sherbet, which we are going to sell for $1 each tomorrow at school to raise the money we need.  When we started making the sherbet, Mrs Walker and Miss Offord were helping us, but once we started to bag it up, some of us took over and finished the job independently and we even washed and dried our dishes.  Mrs Walker is so proud of us for taking on these responsibilities.