Say NO to Plastic Bags

Young youth environmentalists in the Marshall Islands are standing their ground. For some time now we have noticed how every clean up activities we would end up with countless plastic bags being collected not even counting the ones that we are not able to collect underwater.

Many corals and turtles are effected by our harmful waste and our disturbing trend keeps going. that is why we are trying our best to promote the use of recycleable bags.

The Jo-Jikum (Environmental Organization) is trying to go legislative on plastic bags, as in putting a tax on it; I am for it. and once people get used to using the reuseable bags, that is one step closer for a cleaner safe environment. GO GREEN

Earth Hour 2012

What were you doing two weeks ago?  On March 30th around 8:30 PM the world joined hands in turning off all lights for an hour, The Earth Hour. This day has been celebrated around the world for numerous years for the sake of our Mother Nature.The Marshall Islands was one of the proud providers for this day. Many nature lovers turned off their lights for an hour on this day, I along with my extended family members were part of this movement as well. as soon as the clock hit 8:30 PM we all turned off all our lights and chit chatted in the dark. felt great doing something for our Mother Nature. GO GREEN!

Micronesian Youth Services Network 2012

During the month of March 2012, I was asked to attend the annual meeting of the Micronesia Youth Services Network and it was hosted in Palau. MYSN is a non-profit, non-governmental organization that focus' on our island's problems and different ways of solving them. Our motto for this year's conference was 'Carve it for a healthier lifestyle'. The main goal of the conference was to focus on ways our Micronesian community can reach out to our people in reducing the numbers of Non-communicable diseases. I had the opportunity to talk about where the Marshall Islands is at within the healthy lifestyle range. I also had the opportunity to talk about the Micronesia Challenge and the Programs that I work with which are the Jo-Jikum Environmental Organization and the Young Champions internship program. After the conference we were given the opportunity to go out and look around the Beautiful Rock Islands.