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 other Outer Island of Micronesia, are among the most isolated and under-resourced in the Pacific.

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 Moch in the Lower Mortlocks. They have taken placement tests to attend the prestigious Xavier High School and Saramen Chuuk Academy, but lack the funds to pay the (respective) $120 and $60 monthly tuitions.

Habele is an all-volunteer scholarship granting organization dedicated to promoting educational opportunity and accomplishment in the remote islands of Micronesia. In recent years donors have provided over $6,000 of scholarships to students from Yap State attending boarding schools on Palau. We look forwarding to reviewing the applications and hope that our dedicated base of volunteers and donors will contribute to the future of these bright young students.

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, culture and diplomacy in Micronesia.



The Habele Outer Island Education Fund is a US-based non-profit organization dedicated to the expansion of educational opportunity and accomplishment in the remote outer islands of Micronesia, a former US Trust Territory in the Central Pacific.

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.