AUSTRALIANS students stranded overseas following the administration of Air Vanuatu are being brought home on a P&O Cruises Australia ship.
The line has answered a plea for help from a group of young Australian Rotary volunteers (pictured), who became stranded earlier this month when NF entered voluntary administration.
The students, many of them teenagers from Albury, were volunteering for a youth project run by the Hive Rotary Club, when Air Vanuatu abruptly cancelled all flights, leaving them with no way to get home.
P&O Australia has now come to the rescue by offering to bring them home on Pacific Adventure, which they boarded in Port Vila on Fri.
The 16 students and their chaperones will now get to enjoy a relaxing holiday at sea, including a visit to beautiful Mystery Island, which is a well-deserved reward after their work in Vanuatu running health clinics and providing medical assistance and training.
They have been in Vanuatu since 05 May, participating in a program called ‘Paying It Forward’, run by the Rotary Club.
Adventure will arrive back in Sydney on Thu.
“P&O Cruises Australia is delighted to help this inspiring group of students get home,” SVP Peter Little enthused.
“We are proud of our Australian heritage that extends back more than 90 years, and answering a call to help young Australians stranded a long way from home, is the right thing to do.” MS