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02/03/2026

Thank you to the Vanuatu Daily Post for this great article about our founder Dr. Ian Norton and HELPR 1's Operations Director Dr. Basil Leodoro!

The story of the HELPR-1 ship is a story of two doctors, whose friendship grew across borders. For many years, Dr Ian Norton from Australia and Dr Basil Leodoro from Vanuatu have demonstrated how determination and a shared passion for public health can ensure that even the most remote communities of Vanuatu can be reached. This is their story.

Read more: https://www.dailypost.vu/news/two-doctors-one-ship-and-a-mission-to-reach-every-island-the-story-behind-vanuatu/article_2613ad29-a17a-5467-bf87-300667fe575b.html

23/12/2025

Such an amazing achievement and a wonderful way to end the year! 👏👏

24/11/2025

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



Department of Climate Change | HELPR 1 | Respond Global

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

09/10/2025

10/09/2025

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