Shopping for Handicrafts
By SUZANNE CHUTARO See below for a list of some of the most popular stores as of January, 2025. In a country where the unemployment rate for women is high as 70 percent and a majority of the adult population have few skills due to a poor education system, the traditional skill of handicraft weaving Read More
Super Yachts Visit RMI
November, 2014: The super yachts Senses, Ethereal, and Dragonfly are all in the Marshall Islands, exploring the beautiful outer islands. The yacht owners were tempted to come to RMI with the promise of pristine water and weather and that nobody would be around to bother them in the outer islands. It’s hoped that they enjoy Read More
Office Supplies
The biggest office supplies stores are CopyMasters, found opposite the Marshall Islands Resort in Delap, and Office Mart, in Small Island, but The Tourist Trap (between Island Pride and the Marshall Islands Resort), and EZ Price Mart (Uliga) also carry paper and pens, etc, as do the big supermarkets. For computer equipment, the best bet is Randy Sylvester’s Read More
Marshall Islands Resort
The Marshall Islands Resort, known as MIR, sits lagoonside in Delap, an easy walk to the K&K Island Pride Supermarket and the main government offices. The hotel has over 100 rooms, including a number of suites, a restaurant and bar, a large conference room, and gym. A number of the rooms have been turned into Read More
Dear Matafele Peinam
By Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner
Marshallese poet Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner spoke on behalf of civil society during the opening ceremony of the UN Climate Summit in New York City in September 2014. Watch the clip from the United Nations below and then check out her blog at https://jkijiner.wordpress.com/ Kathy is a poet, writer, journalist and teacher, currently working as an instructor at Read More
Canoes of the Marshalls
Waan Aelõñ in Majel (Canoes of the Marshall Islands) is based in Delap, just west of the Marshall Islands Resort. The grassroots non-profit, non-government organization known as WAM trains Marshall Islands youth based on the traditions of the Marshallese canoe. Sail on a canoe: Have the ride of your life on a traditional Marshallese canoe. Read More
Jilel: The Calling of the Shell
Described as ‘A Global Warming Fairy Tale’, Jilel is a heartwarming, heroic story about a young Marshallese girl named Molina who is confronted for the first time with the idea that her island—her beloved homeland—is vanishing because of the rising seas caused by world-wide global warming. This unusual, thought provoking Marshallese language (with Read More
The War Against Diabetes
In the Marshall Islands, 75 percent of adults over the age of 50 are diabetic. Canvasback Missions, which made the above video, is helping to reverse the deadly diabetes epidemic through collaboration with the World Diabetes Foundation and the RMI Ministry of Health. Canvasback’s Wellness Center, which is next to Majuro Hospital, runs a lifestyle intervention Read More
Medical Treatment
For a small island, the available medical treatment available on Majuro is substantial at Majuro’s hospital in Delap. That said, under-staffing and a huge demand at the hospital leaves many visitors questioning where the huge amount of donor funds to the Ministry of Health and Human Services goes. To visit out-patients, it’s best to go early Read More
Practical Marshallese
Former WorldTeach volunteer Peter Rudiak-Gould spent a year on Ujae Atoll in the early 2000s and wrote a book of his adventure called Surviving Paradise. A linguist, he also wrote a book called Practical Marshallese, which he is generously willing to share. You can download the pdf here: Practical Marshallese Peter is now Dr. Peter Rudiak-Gould, having Read More
