Habele has just received letters of thanks and photographs from the isolated Atoll of Eauripik in Yap State, Micronesia.Habele has been sending regular shipments of donated books and school supplies to Eauripik in order to provide the students and community members with a library.Special thanks to dedicated donors...
Habele is donating solar-powered lighting units to the public library on Eauripik Atoll.The lights were purchased with generous support from the Northern California Peace Corps Association and will enable students and community members to read books in the late afternoon and evening.Habele's commitment to the library on Eauripik...
Habele, the scholarship granting organization serving Micronesia's Outer Island students, has been in the news this month, receiving positive press attention for it's 2008-09 tuition scholarships. Among this highlights:Pacific Magazine: "Six Outer Islanders received scholarships from US Fund" link (9/3)Sapian Tribune: "Remote Pacific Islanders awarded scholarships" link (9/6)Hawaii's...
Scholarship winner Joeann M. from Falalop Ulithi, entering her senior year at Bethania High School in Palau.Six decades ago, the remote Pacific Islands of Micronesia were the site of intense battles between American GIs and entrenched Japanese defenders. Now the region is better known for hosting the reality...
Habele would like to thank our friends at the Palmetto Scoop and Sunlit Uplands for helping gather t-shirts for public school students in the Outer Islands of Micronesia.Today Habele mailed four brimming boxes of shirts to staff at the high school on Falalop, Ulithi, which serves the Islands...
Today Habele mailed a set of 2004 Worldbook encyclopedias to Moch Elementary and Junior High School on the island of Weno in Chuuk State.The books were sent following a request from Principal Akapio Raymond who had heard of the positive impact that Habele book donations made in schools...
Donations for Habele's 2008-09 high school scholarships continue to pour in. In early June the Fund received a check for $600 from a California couple who recently vacationed in Micronesia."We are excited to help provide support for the full tuition cost of a student in Chuuk." explained the...
The Habele Outer Island Education Fund has just received a packet of letters from Moch public schools on Weno, in Chuuk State. In addition to a note from Principal Akapio Raymond (above) there were nine hand written letters from middle school students expressing their need for Encyclopedias and...
Habele's recent donation of school supplies to the Atoll of Ulithi has arrived at Falalop Ulithi Elementary School (FUES) and Asor Community Elementary School (ACES), where students are making good use of the paper, pens, pencils, notebooks, folders, crayons and texts."These materials will be a big help for...
Habele donors from around the nation are responding to the Fund's request for assistance in awarding high school scholarships to children in the remote Outer Islands of Micronesia."We have been very lucky so far," explained Marc McNamara, of the Board of Directors. "In just the first week we...
So far this year Habele has made book donations to public school libraries on the Atolls of Ulithi and Eauripik, and the Island of Fais. Dedicated volunteers have sent over three-dozen boxes of textbooks and school supplies to Eauripik alone. Now we are looking to raise support for...
Habele has just sent four boxes of materials to Asor Community Elementary School (ACES) and Falalop Ulithi Elementary School (FUES) on the remote Atoll of Ulithi. The supplies, including pens, pencils, notebooks and calculators, are part of Habele's ongoing public school support project. Public schools on Ulithi, and...
Habele, the educational nonprofit serving Micronesia's remote Outer Islands, has just received a packet of scholarship applications from students living on atolls of Chuuk State.The eager young scholars are finishing eighth grade at public schools staffed by Peace Corps volunteers on the islands of Ta, Oneop, Lekinioch and...
As part of Habele’s ongoing Eauripik Public School Library Development Project, the fund will be mailing more books to the Atoll this week.In addition to textbooks for students in middle school, the shipment also includes a range of books that deal specifically with regional issues of development, gender,...
The Fund has created a new Facebook group. Donors and volunteers who have Facebook accounts can join here.In old media news, both the Saipan Tribune and the Marianas Variety have printed articles about the recent donation of text books and school supplies to the Atoll of Eauripik. ...
The fiction and literature portion of the donation, boxed up and ready to be mailed.The Habele Outer Island Education Fund announced today that it mailed over a dozen boxes of school supplies, textbooks and instructional materials to the Atoll of Eauripik in Yap State, Micronesia.The Atoll of Eauripik...
Habele has received a kind letter of thanks from Vocational Education Teachers on the Atoll of Woleai (also spelled Wooleai). The Fund mailed the school a collection of basic hand tools as part of Habele’s ongoing public school and library support project. Albert Fong explained:Thank you so much...
Habele is an all-volunteer non-profit narrowly focused on promoting educational opportunities and accomplishment in Micronesia. Toward that end we offer the following links to keep our donors and volunteers abreast of developments in the Pacific.The Economist considers the adoption and development of technology in the third world, and...
Last week Habele announced the start of a book drive for the remote Atoll of Eauripik in Yap State, Micronesia.The Fund’s Directors had been working with donors to develop a comprehensive library development plan for that community and publicly announced details of the effort in mid-January to gather...
Habele is excited to announce the start of a book drive for the island of Eauripik! We are looking to gather donations of fiction, nonfiction and textbooks to help fully stock the community library housed at the Eauripik Community School (pictured).Working with donors in North Carolina and Texas,...
Working to keep Habele donors and volunteers abreast of events in the Pacific, we offer these links to two recently released publications.Is That the Best You Can Do? A Tale of Two Micronesian EconomiesFather Francis Hezel …Hezel reviews the history of development initiatives in the FSM and RMI....
The Board of Directors of the Habele Outer Island Education Fund is proud to announce the publication of its 2007 Annual Report. The report highlights a wide range of accomplishments from library development and school donations to the awarding of tuition scholarships.An electronic version of the report is...
