More than 500 children across Yap State, from birth to age five, are receiving a book each month from Young Island Readers The program, a partnership between US nonprofit Habele and the Imagination Library, aims to foster a lifelong love of learning and literacy but introducing small children to the joys of reading in their … Continue reading Young Island Readers Advancing Youth Literacy into Yap’s Remote Outer Islands
Yap schools lead way in collaborative robotics
Yap Catholic High School, the most veteran of participants in the FSM-wide Habele Robotics League, has been promoting robotics to other high schools across Yap State for a decade. This year, the school pioneered a new model for the annual “Yap Robo Day,” a public exhibition in which robotics clubs from across Yap and its … Continue reading Yap schools lead way in collaborative robotics
Kind words from Eauripik School for book donations
Months ago, Habele's volunteers gathered books for the students and educators on the small isolated Atoll of Eauripik in Yap State, Micronesia. Habele donors contributed to have them sent. The books made it Guam, then south to Yap Proper, and finally all the way to Eauripik aboard the small state-owned field trip ship. A teacher … Continue reading Kind words from Eauripik School for book donations
Micronesian Looms: Weaving Connections in the US (2)
This is the second in a series of posts dealing with Weaving Connections, a project of Habele to sustain and preserve Micronesian backstrap weaving traditions among Island populations who’ve migrated to the United States mainland. More here Cataloging of Materials and Equipment Habele and our technical leads began by listing all the items needed to … Continue reading Micronesian Looms: Weaving Connections in the US (2)