About Us

vision
A world in which children in the developing island nations have the resources to get an education thereby empowering them to help themselves.

mission
To provide resources to improve education and leadership skills in the schools in Micronesia.

goals

• provide funding for educational scholarships for academically qualified needy students from the developing outer island communities in Micronesia.
  
• solicit books to send to the needy schools in Micronesia.
  
• collaborate with other educators to provide educational leadership training to schools in Micronesia.
  
• offer community-based service learning opportunities for students in developed countries to help disadvantaged children in the outer islands of Micronesia.
  
• provide funding for and technical training to projects that benefit people in the developing island nations of Micronesia.
  

history

While serving as volunteers at Xavier High School in Micronesia, Vid and Desha had opportunities to visit the outer islands. There, they saw firsthand the lack of resources in the elementary school, heard teachers asking for help in teacher training opportunities, and the tremendous desire on the part of parents to give their children a decent education. The inaccessibility of many of the outer islands prevents the teachers and students to visit libraries and for the teachers to participate in professional development programs.

During one of their visit to the outer island of Houk, Vid was approached by the civic and traditional leaders who asked for help to improve education and health conditions in the community.

The project is supported by Stephanie Staley, a librarian at Cabrillo College, who visited Xavier High School in 2005, and was moved by the limited and outdated books found at the school library. When she returned to the States, Mrs. Staley began to look for ways to help the library at Xavier. She heads up the book collection program and has sent a volume of Encyclopedia to the school as a start.