Tents have become makeshift classrooms for students at Adventist schools in Tonga while the schools await rebuilding work after Tropical Cyclone Gita struck in February.
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With an increased enrolment and five new staff, Kauma Adventist High School has had a positive start to the year.
Taauke Ruevita was the youngest survivor of the Kiribati ferry tragedy, which claimed more than 80 lives in January. She spent 12 days in a lifeboat waiting to be rescued, catching fish to eat and drinking seawater.
Adventist education in Vanuatu has such a good reputation that communities are very eager to establish an Adventist school in their village despite differences in religion.
Vanuatu students are missing their families but have settled in well to Aore Adventist Academy.
Twenty-nine students from two Adventist schools in Tonga were baptised recently—part of a harvesting program that resulted in a record 225 baptisms for the island nation.
More than 100 teachers from Seventh-day Adventist Schools in Solomon Islands participated in the training workshop.
