IN PICTURES – CYCLONE PAM
Record rainfalls had already afflicted Port Vila even before cyclone Pam’s effects were felt.
Gale force winds still affected the town of Port Vila after cyclone Pam had passed.
Yachts by the dozen were wrecked by cyclone Pam.
A boy peers tentatively at the raging waters in normally placid Port Vila Bay.
Wreckage strews the streets of Port Vila the morning after cyclone Pam struck the town.
A shopkeeper desperately tries to keep the roof of his store from flying away. Even the morning after, cyclone Pam’s winds were still dangerously strong.
Marginal communities were the worst affected. This squatter camp was obliterated, leaving nothing standing.
These children walked 10 kilometres back from the evacuation centre they stayed in when cyclone Pam devastated their area.
A Mele village man surveys the wreckage wrought during cyclone Pam when a nearby river overflowed its banks, drowning the neighbourhood in mud.
A Mele village woman walks through the wreckage caused by cyclone Pam when a nearby river overflowed its banks, drowning her neighbourhood in mud.
Children from Mele village play in the wreckage wrought during cyclone Pam when a nearby river overflowed its banks, drowning the neighbourhood in mud.
A woman from Mele village picks her way through the damage wrought during cyclone Pam when a nearby river overflowed its banks, drowning her neighbourhood in mud.
A small boy looks at the destruction wrought by cyclone Pam when a nearby river overflowed its banks, gutting his house.
A woman from Mele village surveys the damage wrought during cyclone Pam when a nearby river overflowed its banks, drowning her neighbourhood in mud.
A board member of the Vanuatu Society for Disabled People stands defiantly in the wreckage of their offices. The building was half-destroyed by cyclone Pam.
Children play marbles under the skeletons of immense trees in the Seaside neighbourhood of Port Vila.
Digicel Vanuatu CEO Simon Frasier helps load a microwave antenna onto a chopper flown in from Fiji to assist with the recovery from cyclone Pam, which damaged communications towers the length of Vanuatu.
Members of the Vanuatu Mobile Force load vital supplies donated by UNICEF at Tanna’s White Grass airport.
Workmen survey the devastation wrought by cyclone Pam when it hit their trade school on Tanna island in Vanuatu. The school had been open for a mere ten days.
A damaged and useless water tank is all that remains standing after Cyclone Pam destroyed a newly constructed trade school on the island of Tanna in Vanuatu.
A young Ni Vanuatu mother stands with her four children in the wreckage of a trade school that had opened its doors a mere ten dfays before it was destroyed by cycloone Pam when it hit the island of Tanna, Vanuatu.
A young Tannese woman relaxes after helping her father and uncle clear the remains of an outdoor kitchen destroyed by cyclone Pam.
A girl peers over the top of a 10,000 litre water tank in the Etas community near Port Vila. UNICEF, Oxfam and the government of Vanuatu collaborated to create this community water resource, serving nearly 2000 people.
A man is carried out of the bush in a wheelbarrow. He suffered a compound fracture in his leg as he and his family members were clearing debris from their yard.
Water donated by Save The Children is loaded onto the MV Sarafenua, a coastal vessel used on a relief mission to Vanuatu’s Shepherd island group.
Adelaide (11) and her niece Cathallia (11 months) at their family home in Teoumaville. This community of 3000 was without water after Cyclone Pam hit. UNICEF Pacific provided an emergency generator that restored the supply.
Brush fires are used to clear the fallen debris throughout the town of Port Vila, blanketing the entire area in smoke.
Ni Vanuatu volunteers hep construct a UNICEF/World Food Program transshipment facility at Port Vila airport in the wake of Cyclone Pam. This facility will be used to handle food, water and other essentials as they are transported to areas of need throughout Vanuatu.
Vanuatu Prime Minister Joe Natuman and Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop at a joint press conference in Port Vila, on March 22nd. Ms Bishop spent half a day visiting the affected area and inspecting operations.
Ni Vanuatu volunteers help staff construct a UNICEF/World Food Program transshipment facility at Port Vila airport in the wake of Cyclone Pam. This facility will be used to handle food, water and other essentials as they are transported to areas of need throughout Vanuatu.
Air and ground crew of the New Zealand Air Force offload vital medicines from a C-130 newly arrived in Port Vila from Suva, Fiji.
A man clambers over the remains of a giant banyan tree as he clear the debris from around Bauer Field airport in Port Vila, Vanuatu.
Vanuatu Prime Minister Joe Natuman enters the National Disaster Management office at the launching of a flash appeal for $29.9 million needed to avoid a humanitarian disaster in the wake of cyclone Pam. More than 160,000 people across nearly two dozen islands face deadly shortages of food, water and shelter.
The government of Vanuatu and UN agencies today launched a flash appeal for $29.9 million needed to avoid a humanitarian disaster in the wake of cyclone Pam. More than 160,000 people across nearly two dozen islands face deadly shortages of food, water and shelter.
Smoke shrouds the island of Ifira near Port Vila, Vanuatu. Cyclone Pam downed countless trees, requiring intensive bush-clearing across the island of Efate.
Nellie gathers firewood near her Aunt’s home on Ifira island near Port Vila, Vanuatu. She was supposed to return to her father’s home island of Malekula to go to school, but Cyclone Pam has made travel impossible. Instead of going to school now, she helps out at home.
Laundry dries on the wreckage of a house in Lamkail village, Tanna.
Hi, We have appreciated the news from Vanuatu you have sent via Facebook. We haven’t heard whether Onesua College was badly hit, we were there building in the 1970’s. Still have many friends in Vanuatu, were also at South Santo believe up there didn’t get the damage, hope you don’t mind sending me information if you can. In appreciation, Janet