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The 1st Ttirhoun Pollap-Fanatopw Conference was successfully convened on the weekend of July 3 – 4, 2014 at the Puerto Rican Association Hall in Honolulu, Hawaii. In attendance were leaders and other officers of the various Pollap communities within the FSM, Hawaii, Guam, and the US Mainland; thus the Conference participants descended unto Honolulu from Chuuk, Pohnpei, Saipan, Guam, Texas, Missouri, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Washington DC,. Among those seated at the leadership table were traditional leaders, representatives from the Chuuk State Legislature, church leaders, and resource persons and guest speakers. [Read more…]
Aloha from Fanapi Foundation
“There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.” ~C.S. Lewis~
On behalf of Fanapi Foundation’s all-volunteer Advisory Board , our partners and sponsors, we bid Aloha to all of our supporters and all the outer islanders. As we celebrate the beginning of Year II of our organization, we are mindful of the immense needs around the world including those found in the geographically remote outer islands of Micronesia. We renew our focus to raise funds to support our programs and services and provide the technical assistance to empower the under-served people from the geographically remote locations in Micronesia. [Read more…]
Former Peace Corps Returns to Lend a Hand
Steve Hayden, a Peace Corps Volunteer on Onoun Island from 1967 to 1969 returned to Onoun to visit his sponsor family and ended up lending a helping hand to Northwest High School. Steve has revisited his former stomping ground on numerous occasions in 2002, 2005, and 2010. On this trip he brought his wife Diane and together they put their varied skills to the multitude of needs at Northwest High School. [Read more…]
Northwest Educators Set 10 Regional Priorities
Xavier High School in Chuuk, the premiere college preparatory in the North Pacific, became the site of the historic Northwest Educators Summer Training (NEST) for over 70 public school teachers and principals and leaders from the poor and geographically remote Northwest Unified Schools. While the NEST was funded largely by the Chuuk State Department of Education (CDOE), this first-ever community led regional training was the first in Chuuk that was wholly planned and implemented by a Northwest local planning team with their consulting team rather than by the CDOE. [Read more…]
