Art & Medical Health Education To Offer Hope
Creating hope to the people of Vanuatu.
Auckland
People of Vanuatu have being coping for the last 4 years with lockdown of the country during Covid, and then Cyclone Kevin and Cyclone Judy.
NZEIIT is travelling up this year to Vanuatu with a nurse and an art educator to provide hope-taking art, medical and dental supplies.
The trust has created another incentive 2 week art workshop to teach students working within the Suzanne Bastein Fondation in Port Vila .
In the past these workshops have given students an opportunity to sell their art to tourists.
In order to achieve this we need to purchase art materials.
Our nurse on behalf of the trust , will be travelling with a local doctor from Port Vila Hospital up to Epi Island which is in Shefa Island group.
In most instances, health care on Epi Island is a screening service and the patients need to be flown to Port Vila for trauma care and ongoing medical services .
More training and health workers are urgently needed .We aim to provide a needs analysis and health worker training to support better co-ordination of health services between Vila hospital and NGOs on Epi Island.
So far we have had information there is no lighting in the local hospital on Epi Island.The nurse and doctor will be travelling out to remote clinics by truck.
In order to do this we need to purchase fuel and transport by air to Epi Island.
About us
We offer incentive art workshops .These open an avenue for local people to create an income. We bring health professionals and medical supplies, including dental instruments ,to support health services.
Use of funds
Medical supplies .Art Material. Transport fuel for trucks to villages.Air freight to Epi Island.
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Supporting Young Artists' 1 November 2023
Artists’ in Vanuatu are ‘grass roots’ which basically means they have little to no art materials to create with. The trust and volunteers bought art materials from Aotearoa, (NZ) for the workshops with leftovers being donated to the Atelier ( studio ) on the grounds of Suzanne Bastien, The overall aim is to create access to the arts. The NZEIIT trust has provided this programme at the Fondation Suzanne Bastien since 2015 introducing artists’ too new mediums, as an incentive programme to provide future incomes.The students chosen to attend, were up a coming young artists in Port Vila .
One of the artists’ Amelia had just won the Luxembourg Climate Change Award for Vanuatu , which will be displayed along side world wide artists in Luxembourg.Art programmes have also been run in the islands of Vanuatu at the Epi Island High school by the NZEIIT since 2015.A programme in wood cut has been organised for 2024 for the high school students.
The trust aims to run workshops for a period of 2 weeks in Port Vila and then 2 weeks on Epi Island Vanuatu.
Funding comes from donations and volunteers who help with the programme .
In the past NZIIT has brought Ni-Van artists’ to NZ with the support of the Pacific Island Investment Commission.
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