The First Lady persona was ditched when Hilary Clinton recently decided to reinvent herself as a tough beer loving heroine of the working classes. However, Hilary’s efforts pale into insignificance in the face of a would be politician in Vanuatu.

Another woman, a world away in the South Pacific, also ran the gauntlet to successfully enter the fractious world of politics.

Viregagaru Ligo Jenny ceremonially killed pigs at her wedding ceremony last year, with a club, as demanded by custom. Jenny is from Ambae, in the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu.

Dressed in a woven mat and custom grass skirt, Jenny is once again wielding the ceremonial club. In the midst of squealing pigs, in order to enter politics, she becomes only the second woman to achieve a high ranking chiefly title.

This is no small achievement, in an ancient society where the dominant male fist has ruled uncontested for centuries. Jenny’s herculean task was to club to death 11 pigs in a special ceremony, where Chief Paul Tahi, declared Jenny to be the ‘Mother of the Nation'.

Most city dwellers would be unaware of the death defying, ear splitting noise one little pig can make, in the face of impending danger. Let alone 11 pigs, warning all other pigs for miles around. However, the ceremony is a necessity if Jenny is to stand for her electorate in the upcoming elections later this year. Jenny faces issues Hillary doesn’t have to face, through custom magic.

Over 100 years ago a young priest was shot and killed, causing a curse to be cast on the northern part of the island.This ‘curse’ has stopped any forward development. Late last year, Bishop James Ligo, reconciled the descendents of the murdered priest and the local people. Now, the locals say, the island can begin to finally progress forward.

When interviewed Jenny Ligo expressed herself strongly. "I am not a woman who sits and waits to be served. I am a leader and I mean business when I say I am going to reach out to the people."

Jenny is the niece of political and women’s rights’ activist, Grace Molisa. Jenny’s aunt became the first woman to hold the post of Private Secretary to the country’s first Prime Minister, Father Walter Lini, after the nation’s Independence.

It is believed that jenny will take her chiefly role serious when it comes to the education of the children of Vanuatu. Hopefully this anonymous quote will not symbolize Vanuatu. Where there is no school, you need to build another jail.

Education is not free in Vanuatu and school attendance is extremely poor in this Lesser Developed country. These stats have changed little since 1998:

#Only 55.8% of kids will get to year 6;

#Only 18.2 % will go to high school;

#26% never go to school at all.

You can assist the next generation of Jenny Ligos to become educated through a Blue Moon Opportunity, you will find at http://winaresort.com.

It is planned to have a new program start in January 2009. This has been privately funded through YouMe Support Foundation, http://youmesupport.org. A Charity that gives non-repayable high school education grants to children from the outer islands of Vanuatu. Children who will never go past primary unless they get outside assistance.

It is hoped that Jenny Ligo will become involved in this scheme, so children will be given the opportunity to understand not only the ancient custom ways, but the modern advances of the 21st century.

The only lasting way to bring about real change is when that change is brought about internally, through education.