(Waa'gey - Colonia, Yap) This year's annual Yap Canoe Festival will once again take place in early November. This year the event organizers are giving community and interested groups the chance to put together activities for the celebrations.Waa’gey, which has been working with local communities and other NGOs...

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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 kilometres spread across a series of tiny isolated islands and atolls, the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) may not be rich in land, but it does have one...

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(Saluda, South Carolina) Thanks to the efforts of volunteers in Saluda County, young adults on a remote island in the Central Pacific will have some much-needed reading material.Kayla Haynes, Director of the Saluda County Library, led a joint effort with the Friends of the Saluda County Library to...

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