Cry for more help from remote Fijian village
The people of Nawaisomo are used to helicopters now.But when they hear the chacka-chacka-chacka noise coming from the distance, they still down tools, grab their babies and rush to the open patch of land on the edge of this remote highland village on Fiji's main island, Viti Levu.The New Zealand Defence Force NH90 carrying tents, a young policeman and a judicial official roped in to do disaster relief, is the twelfth such aid run to Nawaisomo since Cyclone Winston hit with massive force nearly two months ago.More than a third of Fiji's population, many in far flung islands and remote areas like this, have been affected in some way.The Fiji government has been leading the relief effort, with the help of the United Nations, aid agencies and countries like New Zealand and Australia which have deployed hundreds of troops, and assets like the Air Force NH90 and the Navy ship HMNZS Canterbury.A NZDF spokesman Logan Vaughan said New Zealand will wind up its operation in Fiji at the end of this week.\Initially a lot of the aid we took in
