Kids attacked by angry fire ants-No escaping the sting

Ants devour children

Pain and agony is not unknown to the people of the remote northern islands of the Vanuatu archipelago. The support that is given by the government is so minimal that health care can only be described as non-existent. There is no hospital. There is no easy transport to medical assistance. There are few tablets. There is limited {{{education| schooling

Bill who is 8 years old woke in the dark of night screaming his little heart out. People in the village heard the commotion. In the dark the family struggled to find the cause, as Bill continued to wait. Bill sleeps on the compacted, earthen floor each night. Across his legs was a trail of thousands of fire ants. Each had stung simultaneously sending excruciating pain through his tiny body.

In the early 1990s the South American fire ant appeared in these isolated , northern Vanuatu islands. Encounters with fire ants can involve tens or hundreds of these tiny, reddish ants biting all at once, again and again. Bites are painful and the burning and the itching sensation can last for hours. The body feels as if it is on fire. After a few hours blisters can form and last for 10 days. Broken blisters become prone to infection.

These people have for centuries relied on village knowledge and custom medicine to get them through a health crisis. They found their lives intruded on by ants that bit at night as they slept. Ants that hunt in packs and sting simultaneously. Ants that leave behind huge stings and sores that blister.

Fire ants live underground around the villages. Shallow mounds the only identifying feature of their presence. The local people have no knowledge of how to deal, with these invaders. No means to gain an understanding of the intruder. Bill will go on crying for days, as infection invades the open blisters. There is no medication to treat the wounds.

Education for these people is an oral history passed, from generation to generation. Formal education is to the grade 6 levels in a village school, lacking school resources. The government admits that it is unable to provide education for these remote islands such as exercise books which are pulled apart to share pages for writing practise and Pencils are broken into three. Reading is done in groups as there are not enough books to go around. The pain and agony of a lack of schooling resources is evident to these people. Their children are the future of their community, their nation.

The communities appeal to the charities, to the NGOs, to the aid organisations for assistance. YouMe Support Foundation is one charity working to help kids like Bill. Based in the capital Port Vila, it has utilised its connections with Seachange Lodge to provide support to these isolated islands. Since 2004 guests at the small resort have contributed to boxes of educational resources sent north.

The owners, Rick and Wendy Tendys, set aside 10% of earnings to purchase items requested by the Mota Lava villagers, including sending fire ant preventative powder to be spread around the sleeping area against the dreaded fire ants.

Now YouMe Support Foundation, along with winaresort.com, is offering the private holiday home plus six holiday apartments, Seachange Lodge, in a world first. Funds are invested in trust for the ongoing distribution of non-repayable educational grants for the kids of the northern islands.

You can make a difference in the lives of these children, with the possibility of you becoming the proud owner of a private holiday home, plus six luxury holiday apartments in the South Pacific take a few minutes to look at this once in a lifetime Blue Moon Opportunity at http://winaresort.com, or http://seachangelodge.com

Bill and the other children, will appreciate your support as they get their chance to fulfil their dreams and take an active role in the 21st century. True change only comes when it is from the inside out – through education.

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