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Happy Manit Day! If you're in Majuro, be sure to check out the recently renovated Alele Museum and Public Library!

Ronjake nan President Loeak!

UN News - Small island States at UN call for global statesmanship to mitigate climate change For the second day in a row, leaders of the world’s small island States took the podium at the United Nations General Assembly to call for urgent international action to mitigate the effects of climate change, which threatens some of them with extinction because of rising seas.

Good Luck President Loeak as you face the United Nations to present the Majuro Declaration.

"For too long, others have used American inaction as an excuse not to act themselves. The world needs American leadership on climate change. United States support for the Majuro Declaration could not be more welcome, and it is likely to spur action from others."

Climate Change Has Reached Our Shores My country, the Marshall Islands, is in terrible danger. But we can do something about it — and you can help.

"Climate change is a defining challenge of our time. This trip that I am on has taken me from 71 degrees north latitude to today, at 7 degrees north latitude. That is from Barrow, Alaska - the tip of the coastal plain in the Arctic - to here. I have seen glaciers melting up close. I have watched coastal erosion on the northern coast of Alaksa. What happens in Alaska impacts you. What happens around the world impacts you more than anyone else, and that fact is obvious flying into the Marshall Islands."

Embassy News | Embassy of the United States Majuro, Marshall Islands Thank you very much for the warm welcome, President Loeak. It is a pleasure to be here in the Republic of the Marshall Islands.

Congratulations to DVTP volunteer, Kat Hicks, and her new 9th grade students!

Embassy News | Embassy of the United States Majuro, Marshall Islands Assumption High School hosted five American high school seniors, as well as two teachers, from Maryknoll Catholic School in Honolulu, Hawaii. The American students were in the RMI for three weeks volunteering their time tutoring incoming Assumption High School students. The Assumption students, all...

In August, the US Embassy in Majuro and Ambassador Armbruster welcomed the new Dartmouth Volunteers!

Embassy News | Embassy of the United States Majuro, Marshall Islands Over forty-five new and returning teachers from World Teach, Dartmouth, and Coop gathered under the embassy patio for drinks, pizza and few words from Embassy staff. Ambassador Armbruster extended a warm welcome to all of the new and returning teachers, and greeted them with a quiz on Mars...

“Climate change has arrived,” and the world must act. That’s the message from fifteen nations in the southwestern Pacific, who signed a statement yesterday calling on other countries to join them in “the urgent reduction and phase down of greenhouse gas pollution.”

Pacific island nations tell world ‘climate change has arrived’ : Renew Economy 15 nations in southwestern Pacific sign statement calling on other countries for “the urgent reduction and phase down of greenhouse gas pollution.”

“The responsibility of all to act falls to every government, every company, every organization and every person with the capacity to do so, both individually and collectively.”

Small islands make big statement on climate change Sometimes, the biggest ideas come from the smallest of places. In other times, desperation pushes individuals, groups or nations to bite off more than they can chew. In the case of the Marshall Islands, both of the above statements may be true.

"Climate change is the defining challenge of our time," said US Interior Secretary Sally Jewell in launching the Pacific-American fund.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/09/08/pacific-climate-change-pact-wins-us-support/

Pacific climate change pact wins US support A new Pacific regional pact calling for aggressive action to combat climate change has achieved a major accomplishment by gaining US support, officials said Sunday.

Leading the way on climate change!

Pacific countries adopt Majuro declaration, lead the world on climate change | ABC Radio Australia Leaders of the Pacific Islands Forum countries have adopted the Majuro declaration, leading the world in action on climate change.

On 5 September 2013, the Leaders of the Pacific Islands Forum adopted
the Majuro Declaration for Climate Leadership.

The Declaration Climate change has arrived. We must act now. Stand with us. Support the Majuro Declaration for Climate Leadership.

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Dartmouth Volunteer Teaching Program Dartmouth Volunteer Teaching Program in the Marshall Islands brings recent graduates to teach in public primary and secondary schools