Over the last couple of months we have worked with Take My Hands and Counties Manukau Health to get our Floor and Surface cleaner up to both Kiribati and Vanuatu.
The Floor and Surface Cleaner is especially good in the Pacific because it not only gives a great clean but it kills bacteria and viruses within 10 minutes of application. This makes it great at supporting infection control.
In July 2020, in the midst of COVID the NZ Navy and TMH came together to get much needed medical equipment up to Tonga where it could be used in the Vaiola Hospital.
It needed to be a non-contact delivery, so the challenge was, how to get it across to the port, without actually having anyone enter the port from the ship.
Fortunately the HMNZN Manawanui was heading up to the Pacific to take part in the international RIMPAC exercise. They used this opportunity to get the container on board, and delivered, thanks to the on board crane, across to the port without anyone having to set foot on the wharf at all. Truly inspirational and brilliant problem solving all round.
In late 2020 TMH were able to help another not for profit, Caring for Whanau, get multiple boxes of PPE equipment, including masks across to Niue and Tokelau (via Samoa)
You can see more about that here in the story that News hub did on the project.