ABOUT US

The Outer Islands Partnership is a nonprofit organization based in Santa Cruz, California dedicated to developing global opportunities and resources to support the local needs in the outer islands of Micronesia.

our mission

The mission of the Outer Islands Partnership is to alleviate poverty in the developing Pacific island nations by connecting the local needs with global resources in education, health care, and economic development opportunities.

our vision

We envision a just world in which the vast resources in the developed countries around the world enable the vulnerable women and children in the underdeveloped countries in the small remote islands in the Pacific to have decent health care, opportunities to help themselves through economic development, and educational resources to excel in life.
our approach

OIP is about eradicating poverty in developing country of Micronesia by building sustainable, community-based, locally focused opportunities aided by the global resources. Our strategy is to partners with existing global resources to provide technical assistance to the island communities, empower women and children towards self-sufficiency, enabling greater access to global resources for economic and social development. We are humbled by the immensity of needs in those islands. But we would be the first to want to find the tools that people need to make a long-lasting difference in their own lives and the life of their respective island communities.

Empowerment: We don’t claim to have the power. Rather, we provide new tools and resources that people can use to give them the chance to help themselves. It must stem from within the island community to want to help themselves. With that approach, it is more about challenging the people to realize their power to succeed than about our giving them any power that they did not already possess.

Engagement: By engagement, we mean the need for us always focus on the needs and voices of the outer islanders. We must not forget that the true sign of success for us is to work ourselves out of a job. The people must always identify their needs and make clear their desire to solve those problems themselves. Afterall, the local people know their communities and live the hardship of poverty.

Equity: We are referring to the larger issues of global inequities. But more importantly we want to do something about this. And we recognize the other people, communities, organizations, companies that want to do something about it. The people in the small remote developing countries must be given a chance and the resources to succeed.