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Aminio David is a 41-year-old male advocate from Pango Village, Shefa province, in Vanuatu. He is a well-known local figure and role model in Port Vila. Aminio is a father of three girls and works in the Vanuatu Cultural Centre to protect and preserve the custom and culture of Vanuatu.
Aminio is responsible for more than nine programmes, including: coordinating the Vanuatu Indigenous Land Defence desk, which is a programme to ensure the indigenous people of Vanuatu are entitled and own their cultural land, language, custom knowledge of the land that make up the identity of Vanuatu; the Vanuatu Slow Food programme, which has become a big attraction for the tourism industry and includes the Slow Food Festival which happens around the country; as well as bio cultural activities that include research on traditions and cultures that are slowly dying in the country and finding ways to revive them.
He is an outspoken voice on menstrual health and we are proud to have him as the only male storyteller in the Pacific Period Stories campaign.