Ministry of Education & Training

The Butterfly Trust has been working with the Vanuatu Ministry of Education & Training (MOET) since 2011. It maintains a Memorandum of Understanding with the MOET to ensure all the work of the partnership fits inside the framework and strategic plans of the MOET. The Trust meets regularly with officials from the MOET.

The Trust and the MOET both intend that, in the near future, the MOET will take over responsibility for the programmes the partnership has been running. The Trust will continue to provide support by way of resourcing and administration.

The primary programme currently being run in partnership is the Health Promoting Schools programme in Malampa Province. This was an MOET initiative which had fallen into abeyance. The Trust has been assisting the MOET in Malampa to re-ignite the programme which provides health education in primary schools.

The partnership has previously provided teacher training workshops for kindergarten and primary school teachers on Malekula. 

The Trust has also worked on a pilot project with MOET to coordinate the construction of 14 composting toilets at two schools, Natawa Centre School in east Santo, and Tata Presbyterian College in south Santo. The construction phase of the composting toilet project was completed at the end of 2024 and during 2025 evolved into an environmental awareness programme.

For an overview about these programmes please see the “Our Communities” pages for Penama/Ambae, Maskelyne Islands, Malekula.

For more up-to-date details, and historical detail, of the work of the Trust with the MOET please click on the Newsletters tab.