By Stuart McDill PORT VILA, Vanuatu (Reuters) - Nearly 400 people left homeless by a cyclone that battered the tiny Pacific nation of Vanuatu said on Friday they are not getting enough emergency aid a week on from the monster storm. The group were among more than 800 people who took shelter from Cyclone Pam in Freswota School, in the capital Port Vila. “After the cyclone, about a week now, we haven’t received any urgent relief from the government or any NGOs or any other departments,” said Charlie Nirua, who lost his family home in the storm. “They only give us biscuits and water and all this, just a small quantity of food for people to survive with.” Aid agencies say the relief effort is gearing up and they’ve started moving food, water, shelter and medicines to the worst affected areas, but there has been little evidence of that in the capital, according to Nirua.
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