A group of Australian volunteers are feeling let down after being left stranded by the collapse of Air Vanuatu. The airline went into voluntary liquidation and cancelled all of its flights last week. The teenage volunteers from a rotary club in Albury in New South Wales have been providing medical assistance for communities on the southern island of Tanna. They're facing the prospect of having to pay thousands of dollars in extra costs to get back to Australia.
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00:00 We can get a charter plane, but to get 20 of us off the island, it's around about $6,500-$7,000.
00:11 And then when we get to Port Vila, depending on how long it takes to get us out of Port
00:15 Vila, we will be up for accommodation and meals and transport.
00:20 So it's a really big, we've worked it out.
00:22 If we have to pay for our return tickets home, which we do, we can't, we just don't have
00:26 the money.
00:27 If the students have paid everything to get here, then we're probably up around $30,000-$35,000
00:34 to get us home.
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