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Comments about Vaccine Outreach among Marshallese Taken out of Context

Community Journalism, COVID-19, English / Melanie

On December 28, 2020, a KNWA report on a Fayetteville Board of Health meeting suggested that minority populations would be the hardest to convince when it came to getting the Covid-vaccine. The news story specifically called out the Marshallese community quoting Dr. Marti Sharkey, Fayetteville City Health Officer: “They have somebody who speaks Marshallese on […]

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Understanding COVID-19 Data: Data Dashboards

COVID-19, English / Chikin Melele

Written by: Caleb Klipowicz Do you ever wonder where to go to get updated COVID-19 information in real-time? One place to start is with websites with “data dashboards” also called “data trackers.” With all the news coming out about vaccines, how can people know how risky or safe it is to get together. Over Christmas,

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A Showcase of Marshallese Cooking

Community Journalism, English / Melanie

Enrā Pantry debuted its first cooking video on YouTube in December and they are busy working on a second video. Melisa Laelan, founder of Arkansas Coalition of Marshallese, posted that Enrā Pantry will have pantry hours on Wednesdays from 9am-5pm. You do not need to make an appointment, but you will have to fill out

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Caleb Klipowicz

English, Wulio m Deo / Melanie

Kajin M̧ajeļ: https://aejemjem.com/caleb-klipowicz-2 Iakwe everyone! My name is Caleb Klipowicz and I am a student at the University of Iowa where I study anthropology and public health. Anthropologists like me are interested in learning about cultures from all over the world, mostly by listening to stories from people’s everyday lives. I first decided to become

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Successful Repatriation of Essential Workers to Majuro

COVID-19, English, Island Life / Melanie

Some very encouraging news has been coming out of the RMI over these past couple of months. The border cases identified at the end of October, one active infection of COVID-19, was cleared to re-enter the workforce on Kwajalein. Around the same time, a group of workers from Fiji were repatriated and quarantined using the

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RMI Launches COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution

COVID-19, English, Island Life / Melanie

Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa began their Covid-vaccine programs in mid-December. However, the Marshall Islands became the first independent nation in the Pacific to begin distributing COVID-19 vaccinations with just a few days before the end of the year. On 29 December 2020, the RMI received 1200 doses of the Moderna vaccine

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Joshua Manene

English, Wulio m Deo / Chikin Melele

Joshua Manene was born in La Grande, Oregon in 1992 to his parents, Tolio and Ponciana Clanry. He grew up in Oregon until 2006, when his parents moved back to the Marshall Islands to become missionaries. He began informally interpreting English and Marshallese for his father and his uncle Carl Debrum at the age of

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Rev. Jim Parrish

English, Wulio m Deo / Chikin Melele

Io̧kwe! Hello! I’m Rev. Jim Parrish, minister for the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Fayetteville, a city in northwest Arkansas (NWA). I’ve been the pastor there for six years, and my congregation and I are involved in a number of social justice works in the area. One justice area we participate in is helping the workers

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COVID Vaccines To Begin Distribution in the US Mid-December

COVID-19, English / Melanie

A total of 313 people – 268 American workers plus 17 Americans and 28 Marshallese expected to be released from quarantine this week – have been repatriated to the RMI through Kwajalein as of November 27, 2020. While it has proved possible to bring people into the Marshall Islands and contain COVID-cases to the border,

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First Marshallese Group to Clear Quarantine Protocol for Repatriation This Week

COVID-19, English, Island Life / Melanie

As soon as there was community spread of the novel coronavirus outside of Asia, the RMI closed its borders. There has been discussion and debate all year surrounding the possible repatriation of essential workers to the US military base on Kwajalein and Marshallese citizens. The US military successfully convinced the RMI that they could safely

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