an australian teenager who lost contact with family and friends when cyclone pam struck vanuatu last week, has now been found 18 year old zoe marshall was spotted by australian search helicopters on pentecost island this morning and was able to speak to her relieved family by phone her father, rob marshall, says she is 'safe and well' even though helicopters were unable to lift her and fellow volunteer, new zealander courtney tilby, to safety because they were too close to a cliff zoe marshall (pictured on the day she left for vanuatu) has been found safe and well by rescue helicopters in vanuatu zoe was volunteering for the charity latitude near namaram, on the island of pentecost, when cyclone pam struck the islands  rescue helicopters reportedly dropped a note to ms marshall and ms tilby with instructions on where to walk to safer ground so that they could be reached by rescuers today the canberra times reports zoe's father rob tweeted this morning  that his daughter was seen 'smiling and waving' by the helicopter using the hashtag #proudolddad he passed on one of the messages the family  received from zoe today 'i really want to go back; i love my family and the kids there's a lot to do out there,' she wrote  ms marshall was one of nineteen volunteer teachers who were unaccounted for after the category five cyclone swept through vanuatu on march 13 five of the volunteers were evacuated by australian consular officials on thursday and another eight people are expected to be rescued today, the department of foreign affairs says until today, the family in canberra hadn't heard from their daughter since  the storm struck the islands 'i love you more than most things': this was the last text message alison abernethy received from her daughter, zoe marshall, before the cyclone struck vanuatu last week  as the cyclone approached, the aspiring engineering student had told her parents in a text message that the village was well prepared and that it 'should be fine' 'sorry for the early text but don't know when phone will work we've got cat 5 warning should hit us tonight should be all good,' she said she said a rat had chewed part of her sandal and, to her parents' amusement, she pledged to fill the rat's nest with rocks after the storm passed zoe, who her mother alison abernethy describes as a teenager with 'a strong social conscience,' was donating her time to young people on the island, living in a village with 'limited electricity, no running water and pit toilets ms abernethy told daily mail australia her daughter would have tried to contact them if she could 'she would have known that we're really worried about her,' ms abernethy had said, but it didn't help that she was staying in an 'incredibly remote' location 'if you find her, just hand her a satphone or take a photo so that we know she's alive,' her mother had written in a blog post titled 'where's my girl?' on wednesday students and teachers at vanuatu's central school in port vila have put hundreds of books out to dry in the sunshine  the school's library was flooded after the roof was blown away in last week's cyclone  as rescue efforts for those still missing continue, the rest of the country is trying to rebuild heart warming pictures of students in vanuatu laying books out in the sun to dry so they can return to school have emerged the pictures show hundreds of books from the central school library, which was blown away in the storm, littered across the schoolyard reportedly, students, teachers and school headmaster paul alexander hatyay  went to the effort of putting the books out so that they can be put to good use in the classroom again as soon as possible international aid agencies ramped up appeals for cyclone hit vanuatu on wednesday, warning that the powerful storm that affected more than two thirds of the south pacific island nation  tens of thousands of children are in urgent need of assistance in vanuatu after tropical cyclone pam ripped through the island  devastation:cyclone pam has hit south pacific islands on saturday with hurricane force winds, huge ocean swells and flash flooding and has caused severe damage to housing  the category 5 storm hit late night on march 13, with winds of up to 320km an hour this satellite imagery edpicts the scenes after the storm struck  the area surrounding port vila, the capital of vanuatu, is pictured in this hand out picture provided by the new zealand defenec force  a mother with her child sitting outside their damaged home amongst the debris of fallen trees in vanuatu's capital port vila  residents contend with storm damage in mele village, on the outskirts of the capital port vila  a car is seen crushed by a tree as a result of storm damage in port vila, capital of vanuatu  the offices of vanuatu society for disabled people are now completely destroyed as a result of storm damage in port vila, capital of vanuatu 
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