The nation of Vanuatu, comprising some eighty islands in the southwestern Pacific, celebrates the twentieth anniversary of its independence this year. Mission Specialist David Porter Walter teaches English and computing at the Onesua School, a PCN ministry on Efate, the largest island.
People are naturally more caring of each other, and the community reinforces that.
For example, last year one of Vanuatu's smaller islands was in the midst of a terrible drought. Now that may not sound like much, but it was given by children who have almost nothing themselves. One young boy even gave a tube of toothpaste, for that was all he had. North Korea Relations between North and South Koreans continue to prove difficult to predict, as signs of rapprochement alternate with military confrontations along the border or off the coast. The one reliable, ongoing truth about North Korea seems to be the hunger and suffering of its people.