A high tide, calm waters and a light wind made for a beautiful scene as the “Rose of Lima” slipped into waters of the Pacific for the first time.A team of master carvers and the young men they are mentoring crafted the canoe, a traditional hand-carved dugout outrigger....
Photo: James Hapdei holds a model canoe in Yap, Micronesia. The model was a gift from his father to Francis Wilson ...
December 18, 2012
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Late in October, participants in the Habele Listening Tour waded ashore on the Island of Asor.They brought with them a ...
December 14, 2012
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Many of the people of Yap in the Federated states of Micronesia are leaving the outer islands for the more urbanised ...
December 13, 2012
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Habele continues to receive letters from students and parents as well as school and community leaders following ...
December 10, 2012
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High tech met traditional tech when a group of US Navy Seabees pitched in to help the Waa’gey traditional canoe ...
November 26, 2012
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An ABC Radio Australia program that covers news and events in the Pacific broadcast an interview with Neil Mellen ...
November 15, 2012
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Eighty students from the College of Micronesia-FSM and Yap High School visited the Waa'gey canoe carving project at ...
November 12, 2012
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Habele Directors and supporters just completed the 2012 “Listening Tour” in Yap State, Micronesia. Meetings were held ...
November 08, 2012
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Lorenzo Sartilug of the Yap State Department of Education reports:"The donated dictionaries are ready to go on the ...
September 13, 2012
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Thanks to a pair of generous last-minute donations, Habele has awarded two additional K-12 scholarships for the ...
August 22, 2012
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Photo: the first boxes of dictionaries are picked up by Yap DOE at the FSM Post Office in Colonia, Yap.A US-based ...
August 06, 2012
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A US-based charity is awarding twenty-three students in Micronesia scholarships to attend the K-12 school of their ...
July 17, 2012
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(Waa'gey - Colonia, Yap) This year's annual Yap Canoe Festival will once again take place in early November. This year ...
June 21, 2012
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By Scott Leis, former Peace Corps Volunteer. Reposted from the East Asia Forum.With a total land area of 702 square ...
June 20, 2012
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(Saluda, South Carolina) Thanks to the efforts of volunteers in Saluda County, young adults on a remote island in the ...
June 11, 2012
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Author's Note: Ben Stiller knows nothing of Habele and in no way supports our important capacity building work in ...
May 31, 2012
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High school students in Yap, Micronesia held an inaugural robotics exhibition last week, ushering in a new era in ...
May 14, 2012
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A kind thank you letter was received this week from Shania, a Habele scholarship recipient in Pohnpei ...
May 10, 2012
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Approximately 30 students from St. Mary's Elementary School in Yap visited the canoe carving site in Colonia, home of ...
May 04, 2012
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These photos detail Waa'gey's latest progress. They've completed the "yaibo" stage of a large canoe. That is the point ...
April 30, 2012
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The Yap State election Commissioner, Laura T. Ngaden and her staff along with a staff from the National Election ...
April 26, 2012
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Betelnut Radio, the most far-reaching Island Music radio station in the world, is helping to raise awareness about ...
April 18, 2012
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