World First In Exotic Destinations South Pacific Island Resort Offered
December 13th, 2011 | 
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World First In Exotic Destinations South Pacific Island Resort Offered In Raffled
Right now people are looking for exotic and different destinations on shoe string budgets.
Everything in the known world is crashing around their ears with the stock market in the biggest bear market for a very long time with the r word floating around. Noone can afford to be rash in their investments or spending. Every cent spent must count as extra cash is in short supply.
There is however one exotic destination that has something very special and still in everyones reach. It has some of the last untouched wilderness areas in the world. People still live in custom villages the way their ancestors did hundreds of years ago. A place where you can breathe the fresh air and see the brightest stars in the tropical night sky. That place is Vanuatu in the South Pacific.
The charity YouMe Support Foundation in partnership with winaresort.com is raffling a boutique resort in the capital of the island nation Port Vila only three hours by plane from Sydney Australia.
Funds from the raffle provide nonrepayable education grants for geographically and financially underprivileged children. A return airfare and one weeks accommodation is included in the 1st prize.
Later this year someone will become the proud new owner of Seachange Lodge. With it goes a taxfree income. Retirement waiting on a South Pacific island.
The raffle will assist children who cannot help themselves. Unless we get outside help our students will never have a chance to go to high school Mr Harris Apos the Banks Area Secretary in Vanuatu said. They will never have the opportunity to live their dreams of being a school teacher doctor mechanic carpenter or nurse. They simply have to stay in the village on the remote island.
The Prime Minister Mr Lini admitted The government does little to assist these people when he visited the area recently. Sometimes all that is needed is only US500 to bring a classroom into use.
One exercise book is shared between several pupils and pencils broken into three pieces to give them something to write with. Qualified teachers are in the minority and often it is the recently graduated primary students who assist the younger ones. Many parents cannot read or write.
In 2006 the nation of Vanuatu made famous by A Micheners Tales of the South Pacific and the film South Pacific was voted the Happiest Country on Earth by the British New Economics Foundations NEF Happy Planet Index.
“The Index was based on life expectancy and environmental footprint to rank the countries according to Adrienne Wilson writing for Gadling.com on July 15th 2006.
Yet the local schools are without resources of any kind. Most of the children will never leave their villages.
We really appreciate our guests who since 2004 have helped us to send desperately needed school supplies to these isolated areas said Richard Tendys the current owner of Seachange Lodge. For those of us who use the benefits of the 21st century without a thought it is good to invest in some children who hardly know the technology that can help them even exists.
Vanuatu has never become commercialized like some of its South Pacific neighbours and so has maintained it own unique blend as an exotic travel destination.
About the writer:nbsp;nbsp;YouMe Support Foundation http://youmesupport.org in partnership with http://winaresort.com raises funds to provide nonrepayable education grants for geographically and financially underprivileged children. Their current project is to raffle the boutique resort Seachange Lodge http://seachangelodge.com in Vanuatu.
You can contact the author Dr Wendy StenbergTendys on adminyoumesupport.org or Phone 678 26551 Pacific Standard Time.
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