Hard-pressed families in the developing nation were more concerned with buying gas and repairing community food gardens wiped out in the disaster, said Vano, who works for ActionAid Vanuatu.

Basil Etienne is a Vanuatu Bureau of Standards (VBS) Administration Officer and a kava farmer from Lakatoro, Malekula in the Malampa Province. He believes the training has better equipped him to ...