I have, for the last four years been helping on an island in Vanuatu called Malekula, to set up a pottery project to help the people have a cottage industry (at the moment it is mainly coconuts and kava), and also rediscover a lost art. This was at their invitation! Each year there have been workshops to teach skills and slowly build up essential infrastructure. This has been self funded with some church assistance and the occasional help from an organisation called Live and Learn.
The main idea is to teach them the means and the skills and allow them to express themselves with their own designs, shapes and traditions.

The last needed piece of equipment now needed is a wood firing kiln to give them the capacity to produce pottery and fulfil any orders that may arise. I have been donated some funds that are enabling me to send out the firebricks, kiln shelving, steel supports etc to rebuild a kiln, but, I have now discovered that I really need a diesel powered generator to enable me to weld up the frame when I get there. This generator will also prove invaluable in the village where there is no electric power and they intend to begin building a new church soon, so it will have ongoing invaluable use in the village. I need to raise the funds for the generator.
My intention is to go to Malekula in the winter and put the kiln back together and show them how it fires.
I am asking $2000 towards funding a generator, of course, the more funds I get, the better brand of generator I can obtain. A diesel generator that has the capacity to run on biofuel is good because one thing that the villagers do have is plenty of coconuts.

The biggest difficulty is getting materials out to the village in time to go and put things together. i am using Church and Rotary funded containers to get as far as Port Vila, where the goods need to be redirected to the coastal barge and then dropped off at the village of Labo in SW Bay.
I am establishing local contacts to trouble shoot for me in Port Vila to help it all to go smoothly.