Vaccination plans vary by state, but current information can likely be found online from your state’s department of health. The Arkansas Department of Health is tracking the distribution of the vaccine and current phase of…
Click here for information in English and Marshallese to enroll in Medicaid. On January 13, 2020, Micronesia community leaders from across the country hosted a virtual conference to celebrate and discuss next steps in the…
On December 28, 2020, a KNWA report on a Fayetteville Board of Health meeting suggested that minority populations would be the hardest to convince when it came to getting the Covid-vaccine. The news story specifically…
Enrā Pantry debuted its first cooking video on YouTube in December and they are busy working on a second video. Melisa Laelan, founder of Arkansas Coalition of Marshallese, posted that Enrā Pantry will have pantry…
Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa began their Covid-vaccine programs in mid-December. However, the Marshall Islands became the first independent nation in the Pacific to begin distributing COVID-19 vaccinations with just a few…
Some very encouraging news has been coming out of the RMI over these past couple of months. The border cases identified at the end of October, one active infection of COVID-19, was cleared to re-enter…
English: https://chikinmelele.com/caleb-klipowicz/ Iakwe aolep! Eta in Caleb Klipowicz im ña ij ri-jikuuļ ilo University of Iowa ie. Ij katak Anthropology (katak kōn armej) im Public Health. Ri-anthropology āinwōt ña kōmij kōņaan bōk meļeļe kōn m̧anten…
Kajin M̧ajeļ: https://chikinmelele.com/caleb-klipowicz-2/ Iakwe everyone! My name is Caleb Klipowicz and I am a student at the University of Iowa where I study anthropology and public health. Anthropologists like me are interested in learning about…
TRUE Northwest Arkansas, a program through the Arkansas Community Foundation, is supporting the diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts of 14 local organizations in Benton and Washington counties: BikeNWA, Circle of Life, Crystal Bridges Museum…
Io̧kwe! Hello! I’m Rev. Jim Parrish, minister for the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Fayetteville, a city in northwest Arkansas (NWA). I’ve been the pastor there for six years, and my congregation and I are involved…