Special Envoy to New Ireland and the Tanga Islands
On this autumn morning, a strange 24-meter ship, flying the French and Papuan flags, anchored in Lambom Bay.
Sitting at the foot of a mango tree, Rulyn Gon scrutinizes the unusual scene: the southern tip of New Ireland, a satellite island of Papua New Guinea, as big as Corsica, usually only welcomes few visitors. .
The only ones who were expected these months were the members of a UNICEF vaccine team, but their arrival had to be postponed, the UN body being still too busy in the fight against Covid-19.
Rulyn Gon, Lambom's only nurse, has been waiting for two years for the arrival of a "vaccine patrol" to immunize children against measles.
However, the group of volunteers who disembark from the boat are part of a small humanitarian program called Aidocean,
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