Thinking of all my Pacific colleagues working on humanitarian response. So tough. While this big event might have captured everyone’s attention globally, in Tonga, Samoa, Fiji and Vanuatu, in the last 2 yrs local humanitarians have quietly been responding to… (1/4)
large Delta outbreak in Fiji, huge economic fallout from COVID across all these countries creating humanitarian need (drop in tourism & remittances/overseas work opportunities), recent widespread flooding in Fiji, volcanic ashfall damaging crops on Tanna in Vanuatu… (2/4)
recovery from TC Harold (April 2020) and TC Ana (Jan 2021), plus their usual programming, climate change adaptation work and supporting things like national vax rollouts. I’ve probably forgotten things. Now this. (3/4)
Pacific humanitarians are amazing, resilient and passionate but this is a lot. Thinking of you all. (4/4)
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