Educate Our Children
Educational reform will be the hallmark of our efforts to support the Northwest region. An educated citizenry is the key to breaking the cycle of disempowerment among the people in the Northwest region in Chuuk. No single issue deserves top priority in the outer islands today than the ensuring of adequate education for our children. It is imperative that our young generations of outer islanders are given all the available resources to survive in a globalized and fast-changing world while strengthening their indigenous identities and knowledge particularly as we approach 2023.
Develop Our Islands
We must prepare for the eventual ending of the Compact II economic provisions in 2023 by seeking ways to use the remaining years and limited government funds to build public infrastructures that help ALL citizens of the Northwest region at home and abroad. As we face declining government funds and increasing needs in the Northwest, we want to create opportunities to leverage global resources and networks in private and corporate foundations and universities to improve the urgent needs in preventative healthcare, school support, economic development, sea transportation, water and food security, job training for our youth, environmental conservation efforts, women advocacy, and leadership training. We want to transform ineffective government hand-out systems to high impact development that encourage self-reliance.
Preserve Our Cultures
The inevitable changes occurring in our outer islands due to globalization and migration must be met with even more commitment for the preservation of our cultural practices and language. Without our indigenous values, language, cultures, and traditional practices, we will go into the world without a strong self-identity. We must equally prioritize education and development with the perpetuation of our cultures, language and traditions.
Unite Our People
Our regions of Pattiw, Pafeng, and Namonweito have been negatively impacted by the divisiveness caused by the American political system. Political campaigns have divided our families, clans, our communities, State, and even our nation. Rather than focusing on our common needs and common good, politicians have continued to divide people against each other to produce results that help their re-election process. We promise to change that culture of divisiveness by reclaiming our cultural heritage and deep rooted values of unity, community, and working together for the common good of ALL people of the Northwest. With utmost humility in our hearts we invite others to join us in finding solutions to transform the old politics of divisions into a new politics of unity, transparency, respect for ALL Northwest, not just a few. We also support the unity of the FSM.
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