Vanuatu Rugby League Jersey, NRL Gear & so much more… April – June 2012 Ships in the harbour are safe, but that’s not what ships were made for… Sail on the South Seas, swim crystal waters, trek jungles & climb volcanoes, dive blackbirding shipwrecks, learn customs, produce documentaries, visit former recruiting locations, build schools, kindegartens & community buildings, help women and students, play a round of golf, dine & fine wine, horse riding on the beach, game fishing, a game of pool… and a day in the spa. 2 BLACKBIRD Wanted: 1 Tall Ship Why: To help take the journey home… Needed: $1 Million
[email protected] 3 I HAVE NEVER WATCHED so much soccer The aim of the recent Wontok in my entire life . What a treat! The conference in Bundaberg is to set up a Blackbird Soccer Challenge on Ambrym National Representative Body for exceeded everyone’s expectations… the Australian South Sea Islanders. I look challenges faced, money raised, the forward to this body’s ongoing support for community spirit and the excitement. It is our programs and the expansion of our yet another moment I will never forget. key project Finding Family Blong Yumi. This edition we focus on Ambrym. A To date, Blackbird has not received a sunken hospital, volcano and football. single dollar of government funding and Planning is already underway for the next whilst we think this has been hard work, Blackbird Soccer Challenge in West we have to remind ourselves it was not Ambrym with it expanding into other as hard as the work our old people did! sporting, cultural and arts events.