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Editor’s note: We are happy to feature a post by Suzanne Fenton, Communications Officer, IT Emergency Preparedness and Response Branch, World Food Programme, about the humanitarian response efforts in Vanuatu after the devastation of Cyclone Pam in early March:

It would seem that you learn something new every day in this job. Sitting in the back of a pick-up truck with his colleagues LP Svensson and Mike Duffin of Ericsson Response, Prakash Muniandy (former ETC Coordinator in Vanuatu) had just landed on Tanna from Port Vila. He was enjoying watching island life fly by as they made their winding way to their digs at the Tanna Lodge – the tang of the hot sweet tropics and the gentle shooshing of the Pacific contrasting with the brown and barren landscape that is the legacy of Tropical Cyclone Pam, for now at least.