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****URGENT CALL TO ALL BANABANS FROM CHAIRMAN - OUR PEOPLE ON RABI ARE DESPARATE FOR HELP AND FOOD!

Dear Stacy, I have just arrived to Suva and if ken is here, please kindly ask him to contact me on this number 9050884.
Yes Rabi is devasted, 100% agriculture, all the foodcrops and fruittrees have gone. It will take just another day or two, people will starve if no food arrives on the island. One person confirmed dead. 10or more house have gone in Tabwewa area including Nuku, Farm, Stream Valley and Fatima. Uma Village about all the extensions are gone, seven houses are damaged with two completed gone. Tabiang and buakonikai have suffered the most, I have yet to get the real data but the statistics will get high once assessment is done.
The Rabi Council of Leaders (RCL) have held an emergency meeting in Rabi on Wednesday, it has formed its own DISMAC team consisting of village councillors with village committees, detailed assessment will reach my table on monday, thus my presentation to the PM's office and to the rest of the funding assistance will take place.
Communication is all damaged, it will take more than 5-7days for this, but by that time, food will be sarce. Water shortage due to damages has been fixed temporarily with RCL workers, but will need a major overhaul of the piping systems for each homes. Toilet shelters have all gone. I am afraid of outbreak in epidemic since the hospital has exhausted most of its medicinal stock etc.
I appeal to all our banaban people and to all of our friends around the Pacific and the globe, please come to our aid, we desperately need your help.
God bless the Banabans

Dr.Bauro Vanualailai
Chairman of RCL

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Comment by Itinterunga RAE Bainteiti on March 20, 2010 at 10:01am: I feel and our prayers are with all our Banaban brothers and sisters who are suffering from the effects of the Hurricane.
We haven't made a single call to our families in the island and this is what is worrying us. Are they safe??? Can anyone tell us how to reach our families out there? Donate??? Who is in charge??? Please advise so that we can donate food stuffs and clothings or whatever that may come in handy to our families out there.