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…]
Teacher Training 2013 Funded
The Fanapi Foundation is pleased to announce the full funding of the Northwest Educators Summer Training (NEST) at Xavier High School on July 29 – August 2, 2013. The funding in the amount of $42,000 was committed by the Chuuk State Department of Education with $2,500 donated by the Matson Foundation will pay for the training facilities, room & board, support staff, training supplies, transportation expenses for the participants who will be traveling to Weno on chartered ships from the outer islands. [Read more…]
Ms 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 transad@mail.com or (691) 320-2381/2865/5829.
