About Vanuatu's Piggy Bank

As I see in Video clip about Vanuatu's Piggy Bank So anyone know about Vanuatu's Piggy Bank. How can I contact to CEO Vanuatu's Piggy Bank or website link to Piggy Bank? I would like to say thank you first for any information about Vanuatu's Piggy Bank. Best regard, Johny

Wanted

How can i contact to buy some tusk to make as a souvenir ...? How can ??

Ask about pig tusk

After I see Pig tusk banker talking I want to know more detail about this bank because I am interesting about pig tusk (boar's tusk). How to I connect to piggy bank? for contact me via e-mail: johny0168@gmail.com

Time to Bring Kastom Ekonomi into Mainstream Economy

I did not get to watch the documentary but I am sure it was enlightening. I come from Pentecost where the documentary was shot. Kastom Ekonomi exists in all parts of Vanuatu, in the Pacific and Worldwide. The exchange and barter of goods and items is a part of human nature. The key now in the new millenium is to make laws to allow hospitals and schools to accept mats, pigs, yams, tusks, shells and all kastom items as items of value and the value to be equated to a monetary value.

SBS - do more Pacific stories.

Great story Amos. The happiest place on the Planet shines through with a story worth telling. Cash money is greed, wealth and obesity, looking at all the people on Pentecost, what can we say, trim, simple, happy and walking. Another good story, SBS.

Traditional Governance System Versus Mordern State

This is part and parcel of a bigger system that has been neglected and underdeveloped for the last three decades. There is now a great need to reconstruct it and enhance it to the level where it would become an agent for development working together with goverment as a partners. The ignorance of it will simply mean that vanuatu will continue to face development conflict in the future until the time when national resources are committed to develop it into a complete system.

I support Kastom

Hello i am a Vanuatu lover and Australian South Sea Islander Id like to thank you Amos for bringing this story to us.  I lived in northern Vanuatu with my children last year and it shocked me how expensive education is in Vanuatu. The fees of a public school education is the same as some Queensland private schools. The expectation coming from the Government seems to be that fees must be paid with vatu, I didn't hear paying Kastom way promoted.  It wasn't until I was back in Australia did I find out that fees could be paid Kastom way, eg. Shell money, pig tusks and mats. It was concerning to see so many people leaving their island and their Kastom, to catch vatu for the sole purpose of paying school fees.  I feel very privedge to have the experience of living in Vanuatu on a remote island that practiced the rituals of Kastom daily and ceremoniously. I think Vanuatu a so called 'developing ' country is a world leader and is as developed as any country should be. That tiny nation has a a lot to teach the world.  Vanuatu taught me to value riches of life not the riches of money. (We all know that when we die we cannot take our money with us.) In Vanuatu society is happy, healthy and living in harmony with their environment. It's no coincidence Vanuatu have been voted the Happiest Place on the Planet twice and its not just a tourism gimmick.