Category: News

🌱 Grow Tree, Grow Community: Free Agroforest Trees for Micronesian Families on Hawaiʻi Island🌴

Aloha! Sirow! Mogethin! Alii! Ran Ennim! Kaselehlie! Pang Com! Iakwe! We are excited to launch the Grow Tree Grow Community Project—an inspiring new initiative that brings together the U.S. Forest Service, the Kaulunani Urban Forestry Program (DLNR Hawai‘i), and Micronesians United–Big Island (501c3) to support Micronesian (COFA) families in growing stronger, more resilient communities through the power of trees. This …

No Aloha for Micronesians

Congratulations to Punahou School students, Erin Nishi and Kainoa Maruoka, for their award winning video documentary, “No Aloha for Micronesians,” focusing on the health care disparities and social injustices facing Micronesians in Hawaii.  The 5-minute project which features interviews with Dr. Neal A. Palafox, MD, MPH and Dr. Seiji Yamada, MD, MPH from the John A. Burns School of Medicine, …

FSM & RMI Women Selected for A+JOJO Scholarship

MU-BI congratulates Srue Wakuk (FSM) and Pearlnalin Anien (RMI) for being selected from a strong pool of applicants to be the first recipients of the MU-BI-sponsored Dr. Joakim Peter Memorial Scholarship. Each of them will receive a $1,500 scholarship and be the first participants in the A+JOJO Scholars Program to receive leadership development and mentoring support during their college career …

Charter School Feasibility Study

The MU-BI co-sponsored research entitled, “Feasibility Study for a Micronesian Culture Based Charter School & Educational Programs,”  led by our great consultancy team from UH Manoa’s College of Education’s Doctor of Education (Ed.D) program is one step toward becoming a reality. The final presentation was presented to MU-BI members at the Pacific Islander Student Center at UH Hilo on November …

HealthFest

When: 11/04/2017 Where: At UH-HILo Campus, USB 207 Services: HealthCare Enrollment, Health Screening, Wellness resources Partners: HIWEDO, DHS, UHH College of Pharmacy, UHH School of Nursing

Micronesian Parents Meeting in Kona

The Micronesians United – Big Island (MU-BI), Education Planning Committee invite all Hawaii Island parents from the FSM (Chuuk, Kosrae, Pohnpei, Yap), the Marshall Islands, and Palau to join us for a community presentation and discussion on the future of our children in Hawaii. Members of our consultancy team of researchers from UH Manoaʻs College of Education will present their …

Seeking Micronesians for Focus Groups on Educational Experiences

Micronesians United – Big Island (MU-BI) and several non-profit organizations in Hawaii; namely, Faith Action for Community Equity (FACE),  The Learning Coalition (TLC), and We Are Oceania (WAO) – are co-sponsoring a research study to determine the feasibility of establishing a Micronesian-focused charter school or other educational programs in Hawaii. They have contracted a team of doctoral students in the …