Yumi Stap Storian

See this Craigslist posting about a documentary to feature ni-Vanuatu learning from American hosts: KEO FILMS, a UK-based company is producing a documentary for a reputable US cable network in which a small group of tribesmen from the island of Vanuatu (South Pacific) will visit with several different families throughout the US this fall.

Hi everyone. I have a Peace Corps Partnership for the school I taught at last year, Vila North School.  Peace Corps Partnership is a programme where volunteers submit small projects to be funded to Peace Corps, and then Peace Corps puts the description of the project on the Peace Corps website so that people in [...]

In my first week in Washington, DC in June 2008, I met up with some RPCVs from Vanuatu. All of us were from different groups and had COS’d at different times beginning in 2000. One of the RPCVs, Mike Hendric (Matevulu College, 1999-2001?), had a great surprise for us. Mifala i bin shek from se [...]

Chad and I feel so out of it when it comes to RPCV’s. We have barely talked to anyone in the last few years-maybe that’s because I lost my address book before I put it all on the computer. So, if you didn’t get a Christmas card from us last year -and I usually send [...]

Congrats to Tom Spangler and Karyn Fox on the birth of their first child, a son; Chad and Kristen Metzler on the birth of their daughter (they have a son, too); and Bridgit Green and Ibrahim Adamou on the birth of their first child, a daughter.

From where did the three Peace Corps goals come? Read this.

Just stumbled upon this today, but Peace Corps Vanuatu has a website.

Hey there, I served on Paama Aelan and in Luganville, Santo. I adopted my son Jason as a baby on Santo in November of 2004. I am looking for kastom stories to tell him, since he is now getting old enough to demand bedtime stories. I’ve got a few that I wrote down while I [...]

Sara Lightner forwarded a message from Ralph Regenvanu about violence flaring up in and around Vila. Looks as if man Tanna and man Ambrym are in a rao about sorcery. See Reuters coverage in this article.

After more than two years, Erin and I finally found a time to gather with some of the North Carolina Vanuatu RPCVs. Evan and Maggie Baker (Evan was based in Vila, and Maggie was a VSO in Vila) and Bryan and Beth Roy (Bryan lived on Paama) joined me and Erin (we were on Paama) [...]