article_snippet: Vanuatu faces imminent food shortages as accounts emerged of huge damage days after one of the fiercest cyclones on record hit landfall.
article_snippet: Communications between many of Vanuatu's 80 islands, most only accessible by boat, were still down after Cyclone Pam swept through the region, and Prime Minister Joe Natuman said it would be at least a week before authorities had a better sense of the destruction.
article_snippet: Every day after something like that it just gets worse; Members of the Yaohnanen tribe on Tanna, Vanuatu run out of water, Members of the Yaohnanen tribe on Tanna, Vanuatu run out of food.
article_snippet: Former Channel 10 television director Adam Boland, who lives in Vanuatu with his partner Kenny Ang, said it was possible there could be more scenarios like Ally's because the country was so widespread. '
article_snippet: I can't imagine how hard it is to find out what's happening in remote islands,' Mr Boland told Daily Mail Australia. '
article_snippet: I think the crucial thing to remember is Vanuatu is a country of 80-plus islands.
article_snippet: Some of the stories from remote islands are horrific.
article_snippet: The Australian couple were forced to seek shelter with Mr Boland mother near Port Vila last week and haven't been allowed back to The Australian couple island home as it is still deemed unsafe. '
article_snippet: We know some of remote islands were hit harder and some of the smaller islands have fewer resources.