Oxfam, a nonprofit group comprising twenty charitable organizations, has reportedly teamed up with ConsenSys( blockchain tech start-up ) and Australian blockchain platform Sempo to assist in relief efforts for the victims of disasters in Vanuatu. However, the caveat is that the aid is going to be in digital currency rather than cash. Vanuatu, a South Pacific Ocean nation comprising of approximately eighty islands, has been ranked the world’s most disaster-prone country in an annual report by the United Nations University’s Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS). More than ten percent of the population of Vanuatu struggles on a meagre two
