South Pacific Island Resort Offered in Raffled

by MyTravel on April 24, 2008

En route Port Vila to Auckland

At present, people are looking for exotic and different destinations, the shoe string budgets. Everything in the world is known to crash near their ears, with the bourse in the biggest bear market for a very long time with the ‘r’ word floating around. Nobody can afford to be rash in their investments or expenses. Every cent spent must count as money is in short supply.

However, there is an exotic destination that has something very special and always available to everyone. It has some of the last untouched wilderness areas in the world. From people still live in villages custom, the manner of their ancestors over hundreds of years. A place where you can breathe the fresh air and see the brightest stars in the night sky tropical. This place is in Vanuatu in the South Pacific.

Charity Support Foundation in partnership with YouMe winaresort.com raffling is a boutique resort in the capital of the island nation, Port Vila, only three hours by plane from Sydney, Australia.
Lottery Fund to provide non-repayable grant for studies geographically and financially disadvantaged children. A return airfare and a week’s lodging is included in the 1st prize.

Later this year, someone will become the proud new owner of Seachange Lodge. With him went a tax-free income. Retirement waiting on an island in the South Pacific.

The draw will be to help children who can not help themselves. “Unless we get external assistance, our students will never have the chance to go to high school,” Mr. Harris Apos, Banks Zone Secretary Vanuatu said. “They will never have the opportunity to live their dreams of being a school teacher, a doctor, an engineer, carpenter, or nurse. They simply have to stay in the village on a remote island. “

The Prime Minister Mr. Lini, admitted, “The government does little to help these people,” when he visited the region recently. “Sometimes all that is needed is only $ US500 to bring into service a classroom.”

A book of exercises is shared among several students and pencils broken into three pieces to give them something to write. Qualified teachers are in the minority, and often it is the elementary students who recently graduated help the younger kids. Many parents can neither read nor write.

In 2006, the nation of Vanuatu, made famous by a Michener’s “Tales of the South Pacific” (and the film “South Pacific”) was voted the Happiest Country of the Earth, by the British New Economics Foundation (NEF ), Happy Planet Index.

“The index is based on life expectancy and environmental footprint, to rank countries,” according to Adrienne Wilson, writing for Gadling.com July 15, 2006.

Yet local schools have no resources of any kind. Most children will never leave their villages.

“We appreciate our customers, which since 2004 have allowed us to send desperately needed school supplies to these remote areas,” said Richard Tendys, the current owner of Seachange Lodge. “For those of us who use the advantages of the 21st century without a thought, it is good to invest in some children who can barely technology, which can help even exists.”

Vanuatu has never been marketed as some of its neighbours in the South Pacific and has maintained its own unique blend as an exotic tourist destination.

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