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Northwest Educators Summer Training 2013
The Fanapi Foundation seeks funding to host a five-day residential educators training conference on July 29 – August 2, 2013 on the campus of Xavier High School on Weno, Chuuk State, Federated States of Micronesia. The Northwest Educators Conference (NEST) 2013 aims to bring together all the public school teachers and principals from all the elementary, junior, and high schools in the Northwest regions of Namonweito, Pafeng, and Pattiw which make up the Northwest Unified Schools (www.northwestunifiedschools.org). While residing on campus for...
read moreFanapi Center at Bayview Building
Linda Mori Hartmann, a member of the Board of Directors, has donated part of the waterfront Bayview building for use as the site of the Fanapi Center. The new location includes several large rooms for offices, conference room, clinic, a large balcony overlooking the Chuuk lagoon, docking place on the water for outrigger canoe demonstrations, and an outdoor place for an uut. “I am delighted to offer this space to Fanapi Center to help in my dream to keep our traditional culture alive,” said Mrs. Hartmann. She continued to share her...
read moreLeaders unite over educational reform
On July 2-7, 2012, leaders from throughout the Northwest regions of Pattiw, Namonweito, and Pafeng converged at Weipat High School on Onoun island to participate in the first Northwest Educators Summit. Their goal: to explore ways to improve the quality of education for students of their region through the Chuuk State Educational Reform Plan. Instead the leaders took the plan further by adopting to take the decentralization goal a step further in building their own reform plan through the creation of a non-governmental organization to be...
read moreEducational Services
An educated citizenry is the key to breaking the cycle of disempowerment among the people in the Northwest region in Chuuk. No single issue deserves top priority in the outer islands today than the ensuring of adequate education for our children. It is imperative that our young generations of outer islanders are given all the available resources to survive in a globalized and fast-changing world. Without adequate education, the future of our State and its place in the global community will further decline into hopelessness. Programs Support...
read moreGlobal Partnerships
Bridging Local Needs with Global Resources! Since the Compact of Free Association went into effect, there has been a steady exodus of outer islanders in search of better life for themselves and their families. Many of our outer islanders living overseas in Guam, Hawaii, and the mainland have established their own base of resources. We need to organize each of these associations of outer islanders into a strong body to help the islands in terms of educational resources, financial remittances, economic development opportunities, medical care,...
read moreYouth Empowerment
Energizing the Young Generation for Civic Engagement! The youth have been the backbone of our community activities in the outer islands. Ironically, they have also been the least resourced. Their voices are not readily heard because of the cultural misconception that youth means inexperience rather than energy; that youth (hemirit) means lack of wisdom when in fact they bear creativity; that youth are undisciplined when in fact they are hungry for knowledge; that youth lack unnecessary challenge the status quo when in fact they are simply...
read moreMs Caroline Voyager Schedule 2013
The FSM Department of Transportation, Communication & Infrastructure (TC&I) has released the 2013 approved schedule for the Caroline Voyager’s trips to the nation’s outer islands. According to Mr. Francis Itimai, Secretary of TC&I, the dissemination of the complete schedule will enable FSM citizens from the small remote outer islands to plan their visits home. Click here to download the PDF format of the full schedule. For more information or questions about the schedule, please contact the department directly at...
read moreFanapi Foundation approved as US public charity
The Chuuk-based Fanapi Center now has a US-based fundraising entity known as the Fanapi Foundation. Founded by Vid Raatior and a team of volunteer Advisory Board, the Fanapi Foundation’s mission is “to raise funds and provide technical assistance to support the Fanapi Center’s mission to promote self-reliance among the underserved outer islanders living in the remote Northwest region of Chuuk State, Federated States of Micronesia.” Fanapi Foundation is a fiscally sponsored project of United Charitable Programs – a...
read moreLocal Faith, Sustainable Church
Over 100 years ago, the Catholic faith was brought to the outer islands (fanapi). Today it has undergone a maturation process. It was brought to these islands by Spanish and German missionaries and expanded by American Jesuits after WWII. While the faith community continues to grow, the needs are also great. Yet the resources have shrunk to practically zero. When the Christian faith came to these islands, it also brought with it a dependency on foreign supplies to build more “permanent” church buildings. Those needs were met by...
read moreFSM Constitution Day Message
Today, May 10, 2012 commemorates the 33rd anniversary of the birth of our nation of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM). In a special letter to the citizens and friends of the FSM, Mr. James A. Naich, who represented the Northwest Region in the last two FSM Constitutional Conventions and serves as the Deputy Chief of Missions in the FSM Embassy in Washington, DC, conveys President Mori’s message of “encouragement that, wherever we reside in the US, we continue to serve as “ambassadors-of-goodwill” for our country by being...
read moreFanapi College Preparatory
The Chuuk State School System (CSSS), formerly known as the Department of Education for the State of Chuuk made a decision two years ago to turn the 2-year junior high schools in the outer islands into 4-year high schools without additional resources. While the decision was understandably based on the lack of qualified teachers in the entire State, it has become a major equity issue for the outer island students. The decision now means that fanapi students are kept out on the fringes of academic and social opportunities found in the high...
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