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17/11/2025

Meet Cecilia, HELPR 1's very own !

12/11/2025

🇻🇺⚡ Powering change from Vanuatu to the world’s biggest climate summit!

Join Dr Basil Leodoro, Director of HELPR-1 Operations, Respond Global as he shares how Respond Global is delivering clean, reliable solar power and essential medical equipment to remote health centres across Vanuatu through Australia’s REnew Pacific program.

He will join Australian and Pacific leaders to share how partnerships are powering climate resilience across our Blue Pacific, together with:

⚡ Mohammed Angawi, Team Leader, REnew Pacific
⚡ Dr Genevieve Nelson, Chief Executive Officer of KTF (Kokoda Track Foundation) (Papua New Guinea)
⚡ Mr Tapera Bird, General Manager, Superfly (Solomon Islands)

Here are the details:

📅 Tuesday 18 November 2025
📍 Australian Pavilion, in Belém, Brazil
🕚 11.00 - 11.50am (Belém time) | 01.00 - 01.50 am (Vanuatu time)
🔗 Register here: https://events.humanitix.com/powering-climate-resilience-across-the-blue-pacific

Can’t make it? Register to receive the livestream link when begins.

REnew Pacific is Australia’s AUD $75 million investment expanding off-grid renewable energy across the Pacific and Timor-Leste. It forms part of the Pacific Climate Infrastructure Financing Partnership (PCIFP), delivered through the Australian Infrastructure Financing Facility for the Pacific (AIFFP) to grow climate investments and support the Vanuatu’s renewable energy ambitions.

Find more here: https://renewpacific.com.au



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12/11/2025

Another first for Respond Global's HELPR 1 Climate Adaptation Program team! A solar-powered x-ray service at Quatvaes Hospital in Vanuatu's most northern province, Torba.

10/11/2025

This is an amazing achievement by the HELPR 1 Climate Adaptation Program team with support from our partners REnew Pacific!

09/11/2025

REnew Pacific heads to Brazil for COP30!

The time has finally arrived: the world’s largest climate change conference, , begins this week in Belém, Brazil!

The REnew Pacific delegation will soon touch down, ready to share how Australia and its Pacific partners are powering climate resilience across the Blue Pacific.

It’s a particularly special time for us as REnew Pacific celebrates its first-year anniversary. Launched at COP29 by Minister for Climate Change and Energy, the Hon Chris Bowen MP, REnew Pacific is Australia’s $75 million investment in delivering off-grid renewable energy to remote communities across the Pacific and Timor-Leste. Building on its earlier pilots, the program continues to expand access to clean, reliable energy and strengthen local resilience across the region.

Join us at the Australian Pavilion - in person or online - next Monday 17 November and hear all about it from:
💡Mohammed Angawi, Team Leader, REnew Pacific
💡Dr Basil Leodoro, Director of HELPR 1 Operations, Respond Global
💡Tapera Bird, General Manager, Superfly Limited
💡Dr Genevieve Nelson, Chief Executive Officer, KTF

Here are the details:
📅 Monday 17 November 2025
📍 Australian Pavilion, COP30 in Belém, Brazil
🕚 11.00 to 11.50am (BST - local time)
🔗 Register here: https://events.humanitix.com/powering-climate-resilience-across-the-blue-pacific

REnew Pacific is made possible through the Pacific Climate Infrastructure Financing Partnership (PCIFP), an AUD $350 million initiative delivered by the Australian Infrastructure Financing Facility for the Pacific (AIFFP) and implemented by Palladium: Make It Possible.

⚡ Thank you for joining us for our - we’re ready to take the Pacific to the Pavilion!

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04/11/2025

Visit us at in Brazil where Dr. Basil Leodoro will be showcasing how HELPR 1 is supporting climate resilience in Vanuatu.

🌏 From the Pacific to the Pavilion: join us at ! 🌏

With just one week to go until COP30, we’re excited to bring our REnew Pacific partners - Pacific and Timor-Leste’s off-grid renewable energy success stories - to the world’s largest climate summit, the UN Climate Change Conference in Belém, Brazil!

Join us for at the Australian Pavilion on Monday 17 November for a session showcasing how Australia and its Pacific partners are powering climate resilience across the Blue Pacific.

You’ll hear from Australian and Pacific Government leaders, together with:
⚡ Mohammed Angawi, Team Leader, REnew Pacific
⚡ Dr Basil Leodoro, Director of HELPR-1 Operations, Respond Global (Vanuatu)
⚡ Tapera Bird, General Manager, Superfly Limited (Solomon Islands)
⚡ Dr Genevieve Nelson, Chief Executive Officer, KTF (Papua New Guinea)

Here are the details:
📅 Monday 17 November 2025
📍 Australian Pavilion, COP30 – Belém, Brazil
🕚 11.00 to 11.50am (local time)
🔗 Register here: https://events.humanitix.com/powering-climate-resilience-across-the-blue-pacific

Can’t make it? Tune in via the DCCEEW YouTube livestream, with the link available from when begins on 10 November.

Launched at COP29 by Minister for Climate Change and Energy, the Hon Chris Bowen MP, REnew Pacific is the Australian Government’s AUD $75 million, five-year program delivering off-grid renewable energy to some of the Pacific and Timor-Leste’s most remote communities.

Building on the success of earlier pilots, REnew Pacific is already powering 130+ schools, health centres and community facilities across six countries, reaching over 230,000 people and strengthening local climate resilience.

It’s part of the Pacific Climate Infrastructure Financing Partnership (PCIFP), an AUD $350 million initiative delivered by the Australian Government’s Australian Infrastructure Financing Facility for the Pacific (AIFFP) and implemented by Palladium.

🔗 Learn more: https://renewpacific.com.au/from-the-pacific-to-the-pavilion-join-us-at-cop30/

⚡ Follow along for our last week as we take the final steps from the Pacific to the Pavilion!

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09/10/2025

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10/09/2025

Getting HELPR 1 ship shape! It's all hands on deck!

10/09/2025

Incredible work taking place across the Pacific as approaches this November 👏

☀️ Essential services, powered by the sun ☀️

Across the Pacific and Timor-Leste, health centres, schools, community hubs and water systems are being powered by clean, renewable energy. Solar is transforming lives in some of the region’s most remote communities, providing reliable electricity for services people depend on every day.

As we count down to , we’re shining a light on solar projects supported by the Australian Government through REnew Pacific and its earlier Business Partnerships Platform pilots.

🇻🇺 Vanuatu | Respond Global’s HELPR 1 vessel is installing 20 new off-grid solar systems and upgrading another 20 health facilities across all six provinces. With support from the National Green Energy Fund - NGEF Vanuatu, the project is also delivering medical equipment, repairing systems in schools and clinics, removing e-waste and training locals in maintenance. Launched in February, it’s powering ahead and more than halfway through, last month electrifying five health facilities in Sanma Province, together serving 11,700+ people.

🇸🇧 Solomon Islands | At Good Samaritan Hospital in Guadalcanal, a partnership with Superfly Limited has delivered a cleaner, more resilient solar-hybrid system now meeting 97% of the hospital’s energy needs. It has saved 19,000+ litres of diesel, cut costs and emissions and reinvested savings into new services.

🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea | More than 300 students, teachers and family members at Kokoda College now benefit from a solar mini-grid launched in March, thanks to a partnership with KTF (Kokoda Track Foundation). It powers classrooms, an IT lab with disability assistive tech, a solar water pump, waste incinerator and irrigation system for climate-smart agriculture.

🇫🇯 Fiji | On Rabi Island, Buakonikai Primary School has new solar and satellite internet thanks to a partnership with Its Time Foundation. Its 200+ students now have reliable power for lights and computers, transforming learning outcomes.

All are part of the Pacific Climate Infrastructure Financing Partnership ( ), a $350m initiative delivered by the Australian Government’s Australian Infrastructure Financing Facility for the Pacific ( ) and implemented by Palladium.

⚡ Follow along each week as we share a new story on the road to Belém.

🔗 Learn more: https://renewpacific.com.au/essential-services-powered-by-the-sun/

07/09/2025

A different view of Vanuatu....across the volanic ash plains towards Mount Yasur on the island of Tanna, in the remote southerly province of Tafea. The most accessible and popular of Vanuatu's nine active volcanoes, Yasur is known for its constant, intermittent explosions of lava bombs and ash.

TAFEA Provincial Government here we come.

With the support of Respond Global and Australian High Commission, Vanuatu, we are heading to Tafea province for the final Tafea mission for 2025.

HELPR 1 will be supporting provincial teams, national teams, health response teams and our own cllimate adaptation team to deliver much needed services to the people of Tafea province, including Tanna, Aneityum, Futuna, Aniwa and Erromango islands.

Tahenakarai Tambe Felix Health Promotions Vanuatu REnew Pacific National Green Energy Fund - NGEF Vanuatu Department of Energy, Vanuatu Biosecurity Vanuatu Department Ministry of Climate Change Vanuatu Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Forestry & Biosecurity Vanuatu Institute of Technology- Skills That Matter

03/09/2025

Forty remote health facilities across Vanuatu's six Provinces will soon receive new medical appliances to strengthen their frontline health services.

Alongside new solar energy systems, Respond Global and HELPR 1, in partnership with the Ministry of Health, REnew Pacific, the Australian Government, and provincial health teams, are equipping health workers with the tools and skills they need to deliver safer, higher-quality care for their communities.