The 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein song said, “Climb every mountain, ford every stream, follow every rainbow, till you find your dream.” 49 year old Clyde Persley, married with a 4 year-old daughter, just found his dream. He won the $39 million California’s SupperLotto Plus.

If he had not taken out a lottery ticket, Persley would have continued to work hard for all his productive life. He worked as a limousine driver, picked up extra hours at the El Palomar restaurant as a fill-in and operated a candy-making machine for Santa Cruz Nutritionals.

Persley will collect his $16 million cheque in four to six weeks time, the amount he will receive after paying Federal taxes. Persley is proof that dreams can come true. Like most of us, Persley “Just wants to live a stress free life”.

Keep a Dream

Dreams keep us going and your dream could come true. Just like Persley, you could be financially secure for the rest of your life. You have a really great chance of winning the Super Draw in Win a Resort, brought to you by the YouMe Support Foundation, a non-profit charity.

When you’re the lucky winner of Seachange Lodge, a $1.8 million dollar tropical island getaway, in the South Pacific, you’ll be able to retire with an income for life, (tax free).

You could either run the property as a small 6 apartment boutique resort, or rent the apartments out long term. There is always a shortage of good long term rental properties in Port Vila, Vanuatu, one of the most stable nations in the South Pacific.

You may choose to move to the tropical island getaway and enjoy the pristine waters, wilderness and slower pace of life, or just loan the apartments to your friends and family.

Or you could walk away with a one-time fat cheque, after selling the prime, absolute waterfront real estate. You would then be free to do all those things you have only ever dreamed of doing up to now.

Well before the end of 2010 you could be a millionaire, retiring on a tropical island getaway, a world away from stress, with a regular tax free income for life.

The Odds

Your odds of winning in the Win a Resort Super Draw are a whole lot better than the California SuperLotto Plus, which were 1 in 41,416,353. You’ve got a super chance of winning because there will be only 200,000 entries, before Seachange Lodge, changes hands. Isn’t that a dream worth reaching out for, just as Persley did?

Making A Real Difference

The California State Lottery is mandated to provide 84% of all funds to be given back to the public. 50% must be given back in the form of prizes and the remaining 34% of its revenue must be given in the form of money towards education.

‘Make Me A Millionaire’ is California’s Lottery’s second television show, succeeding ‘The Big Spin’. The Lottery also funds dozens of instant-lottery Scratchers Games.

YouMe Support Foundation is not mandated to give back only a portion of funds raised, it is mandated to put all funds raised into giving high school education grants, to kids who will never otherwise have the opportunity to go to high school. No one else is helping these kids.

YouMe Support Foundation will give grants wherever there is no free education, beginning with the South Pacific nation of Vanuatu.

Life Changing

YouMe Support Foundation is not into just raising funds for giving kids the chance to fulfill their dreams, it is into changing lives. As Nelson Mandella said, “Education is the only way to make a lasting change.”

Your $49 Australian dollars will make a real difference to these kids. You only have to talk to Maimona Silas, the first student to enter the grant program. Her winning smile proves that giving these kids a chance is the best investment you will ever make.

Don’t miss out on this once in a lifetime opportunity. You could win a 7 day holiday for two to visit Seachange Lodge and check the place out, in the Monthly Draw. You could win a holiday, plus be the proud owner of a million dollar tropical island getaway for just $49 Australian dollars!

Next draw closing on 12th July. Hurry get your entry now, it could be the winning ticket at Win a Resort

Sitting in the hustle and bustle of New York, Nancy Martel was captivated by the thought of winning an exotic 7 day holiday for two in the South Pacific. It was a long shot and she never dreamed for one minute it would be hers, but she liked the idea that that money she put into the project would put some really needy kids into high school.

Nancy won the first Monthly Draw from Win a Resort. She now has the choice of a fabulous tropical island holiday, (better than anything she saw on the reality TV show ‘Survivor’), or she could simply settle for $1000 Cash. What a choice!

Vanuatu is on the North Western corner of the South Pacific, just two and a half hours off the eastern coast of Australia. It not only hosted a ‘Survivors’ program, but was also voted the Happiest Country On Earth, in 2006.

Vanuatu is a y-shaped archipelago of 83 coral based islands, with a unique blend of ancient tribes and a wide variety of over 153 distinct languages. A fascinating country with unique giant banyan trees, one of the earth’s largest living organisms, plus giant prehistoric tree ferns. Vanuatu is also the home of one of the world’s tallest free standing musical instruments.

The geography ranges from pristine wilderness and underwater wonderland, to live volcanoes. It is the original home of the extreme sport of bungee jumping, as well as the distinct water music. A country that has been barely tamed by the 21st century and full of fascinating surprises. The general beauty, relaxed way of life and genuinely friendly people make Vanuatu one of the most exotic travel destinations in the world. It is truly the unpolished jewel of the South Pacific - the Dream Travel Destination Of The World.

For many years Vanuatu was a condominium of both the French and English rule, which has left behind a rich dual heritage, both in language and cuisine. Vanuatu also came under the influence of the  presence of thousands of American soldiers stationed in the islands, during World War 11.

Because Nancy purchased a Diamond Discount Voucher, she also gets a trip to the southern island of Tanna, and the opportunity to stand on the very lip of a live volcano. What an awesome experience!

Already the next Monthly Draw is under way. You  have nothing to lose by taking a few minutes to check it out at Win a Resort. The next Discount Voucher could have your name on it and it could be next winning ticket. You could be on your way to Vanuatu.

Entrepreneur, television personality  and producer and acid-tongued judge, thirty-seven year old Simon Phillip Cowell, made history, when his only comment after listening to 47 year old Susan Boyle’s explosive power as she sang on ‘Britain Has Talent’, was an unqualified, “Yes”.

Scottish Susan Boyle, with an accent as broad as the Clyde River, walked solo onto centre stage of ‘Britain Has Talent’, tv show, wearing a disastrously outmoded dress. She had a contestant identification label strung around her neck, like a prisoner waiting for an identification file-photograph.

Chatting nervously and looking pathetically vulnerable, Susan answered Simon’s questions about her back-of-beyond, Scottish village in western Scotland, Blackburn. Susan managed to display a street-tough sense of humour, as she quietly withstood the judges’ and audience’s wall of skepticism. Later, when asked how she felt at this point Susan said, “You had to keep going.”

Susan wasn’t even on the same block, let alone the same street, as the usual half-dressed over-the-top floosies, trying to impress their way to the Royal Variety Performance in December. The 2000 strong crowd were seen to visually scoff when the Scots lady from obscurity, declared, “I’m tryin to be a professional singer”. You could almost hear Simon Cowell’s mind grinding “Over my dead body”, as the camera conveniently fixed on an audience member rolling her eyes in outrageous disbelief.

Or was it? The fundamental rule of the entertainment business is to entertain. Everyone knows that magic is slight of hand and showmanship. Yet everyone of every age loves to be conned by magic and long for some  in their ordinary ‘put-up-with it’ day to day life.

The word on the streets was that the ‘American Idol’ programme was on the long slithery slide to oblivion, with the strong possibility of bored Simon Cowell leaving the show. Could the British version save the day?

In 2007 an unknown, overweight, unmarried, unimpressive mobile phone salesman, rose to instant stardom when he was ‘discovered’ and won the first series of ‘Britain Has Talent’. Today the 37 year old Paul Potts, tours the world with his rich operatic voice, a millionaire. He recently met Susan in a TV interview, which linked Australia with Scotland.

Two things were going for the ‘Britains Got Talent’ this year. The public is ravenous for any glimmer of hope, after the Doom-and-Gloom of the financial tsunamis of 2008. The public is groping for anything that could even remotely make them it there can be a better tomorrow. The reality talent shows needed to find a down and out, unimpressive nobody, they could make into somebody, to get the shows’ television ratings to recover. They needed a miracle to help keep those applications for auditions to be on the show, coming in.

The producers got lucky. Unemployed, unmarried, unkissed, volunteer church worker applied for an audition. She is their wrinkly garden variety caterpillar, who had the ingredients necessary for being transformed into a gem studded high flying butterfly.

Susan nervously joked on camera, before going on stage “I’m gonna make that audience rock.”

From the first expolsive notes of “I Dreamed A Dream’, from the show ‘Le Miserables’ and the gob-stopped look on judges Simon Cowell and Amanda Holden’s faces, Susan not only made the audience rock, she devoured them live. The audience rose to its feet in exultant captivation. How could such a frumpy ordinary looking middle aged woman, contain such a powerful, yet well modulated voice, capable of flooding the heart with emotion?

Was Simon doing his usual pulling-your-string act, or was he ‘Telling-it-as-it-is’, when the only comment he had to make was, “I knew from the moment you walked out on that stage that we were going to hear something extraordinary and I was right.”

Simon sat like a wounded duck, silently observing the other two judges reacting in elated shock. Where were his usual acidic and derogatory remarks designed to humiliate and cut off at the ankles, in spite of his “I don’t mean to be rude…” Simon has been likened to Judge Judy. Was Simon under don’t-you dare-under-any-circumstances instructions from the producers? Or did they simply count on something special rising up in the man who his friends say, “Is really nice when you get to know him”?

Susan has an explosive and mind blowing voice, but was it also a unique and well performed piece of Hollywood showmanship as well? Obviously the producers would never dare to put someone like Susan on their show if they had not been convinced there was a legitimate chance she would achieve exactly what she did. Though no one in their wildest dreams that Susan’s clip on You Tube would score over 30 million hits.

Susan deserved to be ‘discovered’. The show will gain a new popularity and the general public be inspired to believe that it is possible to ‘Dream a Dream’ and see it become a reality. All in all, it was crowd stopping entertainment that has turned Susan’s world completely upside down. Susan is a living real-life ‘Cinderella’, as her dreams finally came true.

Sometimes in life there does comes that once in a lifetime Blue Moon Opportunity, though few are like Susan and have the guts to take it up. At Win a Resort there is an opportunity like this waiting for you. One that is completely GUARANTEED TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE. Take a few minutes to check it out. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain.

A lot of people have dreams of becoming a millionaire, as is seen by the popular television show, ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?’. However, for most people they allow the ‘system’ to trap them into thinking they do not have the ability to succeed. They do not have ‘what it takes.’ This couldn’t be further from the truth.

Microsoft was advertising for cleaners. An unemployed man felt he could apply for the position.
The manager of Microsoft arranged for the man to take an aptitude test.

After the test, the manager told the man, “You will be employed as a cleaner at a minimum wage of $5.00 an hour. Let me have your e-mail address, so I can send you a form to complete and tell you where to report for work.”

The man protested that he had neither a computer nor an e-mail address.

The Microsoft manager replied, “That means that you are virtually nonexistent and can therefore hardly expect to find employment at Microsoft.”

Stunned, the man left, not knowing what to do. He only had $10 in his wallet. Suddenly, seeing a Blue Moon Opportunity, the unemployed man made up his mind to buy 25 lb of lush red tomatoes from the market. In less than two hours he had sold all the tomatoes one by one, and scored a profit of 100%.

Several more times that day the repeated the process, ending up with almost $100.00 before going to sleep that night. He was convinced he could quite easily make a good living selling tomatoes. Every day he rose real early and would go to bed very late, as he continued the process day in day out. He quickly multiplied his profit.

After a short time he acquired a cart to transport several dozen boxes of tomatoes, only to have to trade it in again so that he could buy a pickup truck to support his expanding business. By the end of the second year, he owned a fleet of pickup trucks and managed a staff of a hundred former unemployed people, all selling tomatoes. Planning for the future of his wife and children, he decided to buy some life insurance.

After consulting an insurance broker, he picked an insurance plan to fit his new circumstances. At the end of the telephone conversation, the adviser asked him for his e-mail address in order to send
the final documents electronically.

The man replied that he had no e-mail. The stunned insurance broker spluttered, “What, you don’t have e-mail? How on earth have you managed to amass such wealth without the Internet, e-mail and e-commerce? Just imagine where you would be now, if you had been connected to the Internet from the
very start!”

“Well,” replied the tomato millionaire, “I would be a cleaner at Microsoft!”

There are five lessons to this story:

1.The Internet, e-mail and e-commerce do not need to rule your life if you have the spirit of an entrepreneur.

2.If you don’t have e-mail, but work hard, you could still become a millionaire.

3.Since you got this story via the Internet, you’re probably closer to becoming a cleaner than you are to becoming a millionaire.

4.If you do have a computer and e-mail, you have already been taken to the cleaners by Microsoft.

5.If you have an entrepreneurial spirit and aspire to become a millionaire, never give up. Look for that once in a lifetime Blue Moon Opportunity. Think outside the norm. Don’t listen to the negative people around you. There is always a way if you have the will.

It was Sydney Myer’s great entrepreneurial drive that resulted in the successful Australian wide chain of Myer Stores. His family were refugees from Moscow in the late 1900’s.

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We all love stories with heroes and a social message. They usually embody beliefs and concepts and ideological ways of questioning that attempt to make sense of our world. Perhaps legends and myths make reality a little more bearable and interesting. They are designed to inspire us and encourage us to dream.

The characters of many legends become so popular and familiar to us, they tend to take on a role of reality, though they do not necessarily have a basis of fact.

British Robin Hood:

Portrayed as a benign highwayman, Robin Hood is said to have robbed the rich to give to the poor. He was a fighter against injustice and tyranny, though a fugitive from the law. He led a band of seven outlawed yeomen (prosperous farmers or bodyguards in a noble or royal household), known as the band of Merry Men.

William Shakespeare makes reference to Robin Hood in a late 16th century play, ‘The Two Gentlemen of Verona’. Robin Hood even has a tombstone with his name on it, giving the legend more credibility.

British King Arthur:
King Arthur is a legendary British warrior who defended Britain against the tyranny of Saxon invaders.  In some tales King Arthur was associated with the Welsh ‘other world’. It was a 12th century French writer who added Sir Lancelot, the Knights of the Round Table and the Holy Grail to the legend.

William Shakespeare:
Most people claim the English William Shakespeare as being a very prolific poet and playwright of amazing genius. Others say ‘William Shakespeare’ is only a corporate name, representing a conglomerate of writers. While the controversy continues unsolved, the fact remains that Shakespearean plays have been translated into every major language and been performed more often, than plays from any other scriptwriter

Then there are the delightful myths such as the Irish Myth:

Some say the mischievous Irish Leprechaun, with his lucky four leaf clover, moves your television remote and steals your underwear and at least one of your socks in the dark of the night. Others say the Leprechaun reveals hidden treasures if you can manage to catch one.

Perhaps the myths (mysteries) of oversize strange creatures serve some oblique purpose in explaining the unexplainable and add spice to people’s lives.

American Big Foot:

In America it is reported that Bigfoot inhabits remote forests in the Pacific Northwest.

The Abominable Snowman:

There are fresh reports which speak of having seen fresh footprints recently from the Yeti or Abominable Snowman of the Himalayan Mountains.

The Loch Ness Monster:

In Scotland’s highlands there lives the Loch Ness monster. Fact or fiction? Either way it makes a great tourist attraction.

Maybe you can add a myth, or legend that you have always enjoyed, for there are more mysteries in life than we have answers for.

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Time is a precious commodity which you never have enough of. It is really important to take time out each day to have a laugh, as laughter has been proven to be a stimulant which increases productivity. So let’s spend a few minutes and have a laugh over that most elusive of all things - time.

Here are just a few things you can do with time:

• You can be pressured for time,
• Waste time
• Desperately try to balance time (something we all have great difficulty doing).
• You can buy time.
• You can ask for a person’s time, or
• You can give them time.
• A person’s time is the one thing we all fight for on the Internet and here is a tip that may be just in time to help you leap forward in your business. “In a war you require study and logic.” Content is king on the Internet so that requires study and the world of the computer is based on logic. These two points are the underlying foundation of any successful Internet business.

You may gain time if you are flying internationally, but lose it again on the return journey. Often small amounts of time can make or break you, particularly if you are prone to playing the stock market. It takes time to find genuine Blue Moon Opportunities - ones that will truly change your life.

While time is a unit, or system for measuring a sequence of events and a vital element of your day to day living, it’s something you can spend, but never recover. Here are ten pieces of trivia where three minutes of time made a difference.

1. In Malaysia, Roslan Ngah, divorced his two wives in three minutes. Ngah had already divorced his third wife 7 years before and has 8 children from the three marriages.
2. A Spanish couple escaped death because they missed the Spanair flight by just three minutes. The plane crashed in Madrid.
3. The people of China kept silent for three minutes, marking in the 7.9 Sichuan earthquake on May 12th. However, cars, ships and trains blasted their horns, marking the start of three days of national mourning for the 12,000 killed and 18,000 missing.
4. In an attempt to jump-start the slumped economy and job market, Japan has launched the Tokyo based ‘Three Minutes of Happiness‘ stores, which sell design-heavy, extremely affordable, ‘recession chic’ necessities, from clothing items, to kitchen utensils. The shop is set up in a massive ice-cream parlour.
5. In the ‘big bang’ theory of the origin of the universe, Weinberg’s timeline refers to the ‘First Three Minutes‘.

Now, I have probably used up your three minutes of patience, but just give me a little more time.

1. According to a recent study published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine, sex has only to last 3 minutes to get great results. The test was done by women holding stop-watches.
2. Having had your three minutes of sex you may feel hungry. You can knock up a non-nutritious meal with three-minute noodles, but if you add a perfect three-minute boiled egg you may save the day. Also add the perfect cup of tea, having brewed loose tea-leaves for three minutes.
3. While you are at it you had better feed the goldfish, for the average goldfish has only a three minute memory span, according to everything2.com
4. While your are showering, remember the best songs are usually only three minutes long.
5. Finally the average person dreams for only three minutes. They say you can come to, change the end of your dream and go back and dream again with your ending. Wow - that blows the mind! Worth a try.

We are fortunate to live in Vanuatu, in the South Pacific, where there are no ‘three minutes’ for the locals, as very few people wear watches. They live on island time, guided by daylight and dark and turn up ‘whenever’. “See you in the morning”, could mean 6.00 a.m. when the sun gets up. However, Vanuatu, with its ancient culture and traditions, is the one place where you feel ‘Time can be Regained’, or at least your batteries recharged.

Let us know if you can think of any other great ‘three minutes’ of time.

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The silly season of Christmas is just around the corner. You are all asking where has the year gone to and what kind of Christmas is it going to be? There is no doubt it will be a much quieter Christmas than we are used to. The experts say unemployment is looking to head to the 10% level, with the largest financial hub in the world in total crisis. Established banks are going broke. Wall Street is as shaky as pile of half set jello. Even when the government bails Wall Street out, someone has to pay the bill, (like you the tax payer). Interest rates will go up. More and more homes will be repossessed, with people out of jobs. The future looks all doom and gloom.

The key to survival in these times of financial crisis is to take stock of exactly where you are at and DON ‘T PANIC! It you never bought any more clothes, replaced the car or didn’t buy expensive presents, you would still be fine. Like Wall Street being cut back, it is a matter of simply going back to basics. There was a time not so long ago when Christmas presents were hand made. Gifts were simply what you could do yourself, instead of buying ready-mades. You might be surprised with what great gift ideas you could come up with.

We have come to rely on a consumer society instead of making do with last year’s model. ‘It’s more expensive to repair than it is to replace’, kind of mentality. Me thinks that is all about to change. Convince the teenagers they won’t die if they don’t have the latest outfit, or pair of fad shoes. Stop listening to the advertisers. Their job is simply to sell you.

We found a way to escape the RAT RACE and moved to a tropical island paradise in Vanuatu, in the South Pacific. A place where you have room to move. Room to invest. Room to breathe. We live in the Happiest Country on earth and love it. Life here is down to the basics, particularly when you take a look at the locals. They live with only the simplest of possessions. Family relationships mean far more to them than possessions. Maybe we all need to take a leaf from their way of life.

You can survive the world financial crisis, so long as you keep your cool and pull your belt in a little. Take time out this Christmas to enjoy relationships more than gifts. It can be a good Christmas. It’s up to you.

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We offer heartiest congratulations to all the athletes who have won gold at the Olympics. Well done. They made the absolute most of their once in a lifetime Blue Moon Opportunities. They took up the challenge and succeeded.

However, the recent tragedy on K2, the second highest mountain in the world, highlights the ultimate in extreme adventure sports. Climbing to the roof of the world, some say is a harder challenge even than winning gold at the Olympics.

Not only is mountaineering life-threatening, it is a very solo act. No leaping up onto a podium to receive a medal in front of millions of views. There are no accolades from adoring fans. No millions witnessing their success, or failure. Other climbers barely register when someone else has finally reached the summit. Mountain climbing is a totally self-reliant sport, with fellow climbers often unable to assist their companions. All their energy is spent on their own survival.

It is great to see the Olympic athletes standing on the podium enjoying their hard earned glory. Yet it is only a short step down, to rightly enjoy the after-games parties.

However, once the climber has summitted the mountain, the job is only half done. No helicopter ride out. No slippery slide to take you to the bottom, unless you want to end up in a body bag. They know that if they are hurt, or injured in the upper reaches, there is no rescue mission for the climber and little or no communication with the world below.

Every painful step that was made in the ascent, has to be slowly and treacherously repeated on the way back down again, after spending just a few minutes, on the extreme roof of the world. Climbers know to stay longer is to risk their life. Time is of the essence, yet at some of the bottle necks on the climb, precious moments are lost, waiting for other climbers to move past.

The youngest person to climb Everest was a 15 year old. The oldest climber being a Japanese 71 year-old last year, until he was followed by a Nepalese 76 year-old in 2008. The 76 year-old says he may even repeat the climb again. If he had climbed Mt Everest as a young man it would have been a shorter climb, as each year Everest rises a few millimeters, due to geological forces.

At the Olympics no competitor has to worry about the rubbish they create. Throw it in a bin and walk away, or if you are in an event, throw it on the ground and someone else will pick it up. Not on the mountain! Every expedition is responsible to remove its litter, particularly empty oxygen tanks.

Over the years the mountain has claimed 210 lives. At least 120 corpses still remain bound in the ice and snow. Some corpses are even visible to other climbers. These bodies are not left unburied from lace of care. In the most difficult areas, climbers can’t put their own life at risk to bury those already dead.

Mt Everest, named Sagarmatha (goddess of the sky) by the local Sherpa people, is considered a jealous goddess. She rigorously punishes illicit sex on the mountain and not always on the perpetrators.

Over 3500 Nepalese have climbed the mountain. Appa Sherpa has climbed Everest 11 times, while Ang Rita Sherpa amd Babi Chiri Sherpa have both climbed 10 times. These Sherpa guides climb without oxygen. Their home base is well over 12,000 feet above sea level.

Everest is not the only mountain to act ferociously towards her conquerors. She has a far more dangerous sister known as K2, nicknamed, ‘The mountain that invites death’. Recently 11 lives were lost on her treacherous slopes, in the worst climbing incident for K2 since 13 climbers died over a two-week span in 1986.

From Olympics to extreme adventure sports there will always be men and women for whom the unattainable has a special attraction. They are not experts. They just have higher ambitions than most people. They do however, have four things in common,

• Faith in themselves
• Driving ambition
• Great determination
• And endurance.

You may not aspire to climb mountains, but there are opportunities that come your way once in a lifetime - a Blue Moon Opportunity. Like these mountaineers all you can do is give it your best shot. There will always be people out there who will criticize you for it. In the end, it has to be the satisfaction of knowing you gave it our best. And you never know - you could be the one of the successful elite who control their own destiny.

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Women in politics deserve all the encouragement they can get, in a male dominated arena. It is great to see Ms Hilary Clinton once more in the headlines now backing Barack Obama. A world away on the tropical island of Vanuatu, in the South Pacific, another woman faces unbelievable odds, in an even more male oriented arena, Mrs Jenny Ligo. Jenny is taking up the challenge to go for her once in a lifetime Blue Moon Opportunity. An opportunity that will completely change her life, no matter the outcome.

Jenny follows in the footsteps of her famous aunty when she was granted a chiefly title by the head of the national Council of Chiefs, Chief Paul Tahi, earlier this year. Jenny had to ceremoniously killing eleven pigs, to gain that honour and in order to enter the brutal field of politics. A feat she also did at her wedding to Joe Ligo late last year, on the island of Pentecost.

Jenny is the niece of political and women’s rights’ activist, Grace Molisa. Jenny’s Aunt became the first woman to hold the post of Private Secretary to the country’s first Prime Minister, Father Walter Lini, after the nation’s Independence, 28 years ago.

It is now only weeks to the general election, in Vanuatu and Mrs Ligo has returned to her home, the tropical island of Ambae. All should have been plain sailing for this courageous lady, as she travelled to most parts of the island on her election campaign. Wrong!

Chief Moli Tari, speaking on behalf of some of the chiefs of the island of Ambae, says that Jenny  is not allowed to contest in her home island, according to custom principles. It seems strange that this principle never floated to the surface at Jenny’s pig killing ceremony. Perhaps ancient custom principles of the island change from day to day?

Because of her marriage to Joe Ligo on Penetecost, the Chief told Jenny, she can only contest the Ambae constituency on one condition. She must perform another custom ceremony, by presenting the chiefs with ten tusked pigs.

Now, Jenny can’t just slip out and buy 10 tusked pigs, like going to the supermarket. Pig and their tusks are real currency in parts of Vanuatu. They are the wealth of every village and one of their highly prized possessions.

Pigs, chosen to produce the highly valued tusks, have their top teeth knocked out.  The bottom teeth then grow into the coveted curled tusk. It is then necessary for the pig to be hand fed for the remainder of its life and tied up, in order to prevent the animal breaking or damaging the valuable tusks.

Where does Mrs Ligo find the 10 pigs she may have to pay to Chief Moli and his group of chiefs? Particularly as Chief Moli is not a resident of the island of Ambae. Will Jenny have to present the pigs on the island of Ambae, or to the chief residing on the distant island of Santo? Will the pigs have to be flown to the island of choice, for the presentation as going by ship could not be an option.The elections would be over by the time the pigs reached their destination. This may make Vanuatu, one of the first countries in the world, where pigs can fly.

Two more chiefs have now stepped into the political arena. Chief Benwel Garae of North Ambae and Chief Pascal Sese of Lolopuepue. They come from the chiefly rank of Mambuhangvulu, the second highest rank of the Ambae chiefly system. They told the local newspaper in Port Vila, the capital of Vanuatu, the call made by Chief Moli is childish and has no substance.

Jenny would be happy to meet face to face with Chief Moli, but for some unknown reason, Chief Moli, living on the island of Santo, is not available to see Mrs Ligo.

Jenny truly deserves to be congratulated and seen as one of our modern day heroines. Jenny could make a difference in the education of the next generation. A soft spoken mother, with iron strong determination, Jenny will look after the future of the children.

Postscript: Jenny didn’t get elected this time round, so is now planning her next election campaign for four years time. I hope she makes it then. Jenny however, is an inspiration for other women to give it a go in a male orientated society in the tropics. Jenny won’t give up until her Blue Moon Opportunity comes to pass.

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