Initial response to emergency conference in Japan
Two days after the storm, Vanuatu, a former French colony, declared a state of emergency, and the nation’s president, Baldwin Lonsdale, called for international aid at a conference in Japan attended by UN agencies and the Israeli relief agency IsraAID.
IsraAID responded immediately, sending an emergency relief team to the area with supplies of food and water. [The team] also spent time in the capital, Port Vila, to coordinate efforts with government officials and UN agencies.
On Sunday, IsraAID departed with additional aid for the remote island of Tongoa in the Shepherds Islands Group after an appeal by John Amos, a representative of the island who told IsraAID that the island has no food, no clean water and no supplies, and that three children died in just one night.
“There are so many islands here; it’s a logistical nightmare,” said an IsraAID official. “The best thing we can do right now is respond to each appeal as it comes and try and reach as many people as possible...
Cyclone Pam - Aftermath - Vanuatu - Tongoa in the Shepherds Islands group said to be 95% destroyed - IsraAid reached there March 24 by boat with food and water. The Wikipedia articles looks as if either wikipedia editors mostly lost interest or else that little or no actual aid materials have been delivered by any other promisers as yet.
Map of the archipelago
Times of Israel - March 25
Jpost report on March 22 deployment
Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs - foreign policy tab
Japan IsraAid Support Program at Facebook