The charity YouMe Support Foundation,partnership with winaresort.com, is working to assist the youth of these islands. Later this year YouMe Support Foundation is launching a South Pacific island resort in a world first.
You can have the opportunity to enter the draw for your own private holiday home, plus six holiday units. Some lucky person will become the proud owner of Seachange Lodge, in the capital Port Vila, with a comfortable tax free income. Funds raised are invested in high achieving students from cashless societies. YouMe Support Foundation provides these kids with non-repayable grants for a high school education. The children assisted by this program will be the lucky ones that can move with the times into the 21st century. They will be the ones to beat the climate change.
On the far northern islands of Vanuatu, tourism is just beginning. On Mota Lava where the volcanic peaks reach the water's edge, where the coastle reefs drop sharply through the pristine waters, where the sun shines throughout the year, a few local communities have set up tourist accommodation sites in a bid to move from centuries of being a cashless society, into the 21st century.
You will swim, snorkel and dive with the locals. Walk the narrow, grassed tracks in the company of laughing kids. Experience the warmth and generosity of the people and their communities. Taste their garden foods grown in the rich, volcanic soils. Learn the traditional crafts of weaving and wood carving from the community elders.
The Pacific Ocean's waves lap the shoreline, while set amongst the bamboo and banana trees are woven-walled huts roofed with natangura leaves. All this in the peace and tranquility of Pacific island time. The tourist penchant for sea views has seen these islanders build close to the water's edge. But what future is there? Climate change threatens these small, remote islands attempts to move beyond a cashless society.
When a Cyclone is overhead the ocean’s water rises in a king tide and threatens to inundate the rooms. With rising sea levels the water comes closer to the doors each year. How long can this tourism venture, still in its infancy, last? What will these people, without an education, do for a living? How will they compete in the 21st century?
These wonderful people will go on smiling; giggling excitedly about the smallest of things; supporting each other in the community. But without external help their move toward the 21st century will leave them behind.
Your visit to Mota Lava and the surrounding islands will provide you with the adventure of a lifetime. Your presence can make a difference.
Dr Wendy and her husband Richard are the founder of
YouMe Support Foundation, charity . Over the past four years they and their guests have provided desperately needed school supplies to remote island communities in the far north of Vanuatu through Seachange Lodge,
Seachange Lodge
YouMe Support Foundation in partner ship with
Win a Resort is giving away Seachange Lodge on the Internet. All funds are invested into a Child Trust Fund to provide education for children who will never go to high school without outside assistance.
