27 Jan 2025

Thousands of children left without classrooms after Vanuatu quake

From Checkpoint, 4:24 pm on 27 January 2025

Thousands of children in Vanuatu will be starting the school year without proper classrooms after December's devastating 7.3 magnitude earthquake destroyed many of them. It's estimated more than a hundred classrooms in 45 schools have been damaged or completely destroyed and the government said it could take years for them to be rebuilt. Term one starts next week in Vanuatu. Save the Children Country Director for Vanuatu Polly Banks spoke to Lisa Owen.