(Vimeo: UN University) – In December 2008, the low-lying Carterets Islands were badly damaged by king tides and violent storm surges. Nicholas Hakata, a local youth leader and community representative, explains that he and his family have been surviving on mainly fish and coconuts, and battling the swamp mosquitoes that have brought malaria. With the […]
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Last year, I attended a “Make Poverty History” event put on by Oxfam in Sydney, Australia. During the event, I had the opportunity to meet a resident of Tuvalu, which is series of low lying coral atolls and home to about 12,000 people. Flown in all the way from her small South Pacific nation, she […] |
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