Taiwan Technical Mission’s nutritionist, Cynthia Lee, took center stage at the Sports and Extracurricular Program’s summer session earlier this month, imparting essential culinary skills and empowering middle school and elementary school students to embrace healthy dietary practices by making Taiwanese homemade dishes. The event, designed to enhance the RMI’s food security and healthy dietary habits […]
The Marshall Islands will see unprecedented action next month for animal care. Majuro has received sporadic visits by volunteer veterinarian teams over the past decade — an occasional occurrence that has ramped up significantly this year with the involvement of Aloha Affordable Veterinary Services and the support of the Australian Embassy and many others. But […]
WILMER JOEL More than 10 students, accompanied by instructor Karalaini Osborne from the CMI 101 class, visited the mental health Iakwe Ward last Wednesday to present gifts and songs of appreciation to the staff and patients. The CMI course serves as an introduction to the college and teaches students how the institution operates and the […]
WILMER JOEL The legend of Jebro, who defeated his 11 elder brothers in a canoe race for the title of irooj (chief) by obeying his mother’s counsel, happened simultaneously with Jerakoj Joey Bejang and five of his friends as they listened to a mother’s advice in putting together a video for the first-ever human trafficking […]
Journal 7/25/1986 P4 Hot party in Enid By all accounts it was a bit Marshallese celebration in every sense of the world: nearly 200 people, food enough to feed any army, singing and dancing, and volleyball, softball and basketball competitions. The occasion? July fourth weekend. The place: Enid, Oklahoma…where else? As unlikely as it might […]
The Sports and Extracurricular Program in Majuro is running many summer programs for young people. Among those is a super successful ukulele training session at their headquarters in Delap. The smiles on the students holding their instruments says it all.
WILMER JOEL A student from Delap Seventh Day Adventist School was selected for a United World College scholarship in Singapore. Bremrose Grace Lakjohn, 16, daughter of medical practitioners Bremity and Kenye Mike, is the first student from SDA to be selected for the scholarship in the over 10 years that Marshallese high school students have […]
The United States government, through Grameen Foundation USA, and the Taiwan’s International Cooperation and Development Fund, jointly funded the Building Economic Inclusion via the Blue Economy Innovation Fund and a Gender and Power Dynamics workshop. The event focused on the power of the blue and green economies to deepen the market participation of women entrepreneurs […]
HILARY HOSIA The idea of Japan releasing waste water from a nuclear power plant into the ocean did not sit well with local mayors attending the Marshall Islands Mayors Association summit at the International Conference Center over the weekend. The mayors, most of whom are avid fishermen, disliked the idea of what they perceive as […]
Journal 7/18/1986P3 Peace Corps promoting healthy islands The 20th anniversary of the Peace Corps in Micronesia is rolling around, and with it are coming some big changes in the program in the Marshalls. Since the day a new group of nine Peace Corps Volunteers stepped off an Air Mike flight last week, they have been […]
