TRUE ANGEL IN BUFFALO 💯 A THREAD: A local woman received a call on Christmas Eve, “Hi, you don't know me but I have your brother.” The woman’s brother’s name is Joey. He is 64 years old and mentally disabled.
@HChrisBallance@kadonkey Our island people love it! They’re kind of isolated too. Takes a couple days of boat ride to get to these isolated islands from the main islands. I’m from these islands and per capita we have a high US army recruits.
@HChrisBallance@kadonkey Usually it’s the same islands probably depends on the donated items they get. I know that Air Force used this mission as a training for their pilots for low altitude flights.
Four humanitarian aid bundles descend from a U.S. Air Force C-130J SH assigned to the 36th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron over Fananu atoll in the state of Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia, Dec. 9, 2022, during Operation Christmas Drop 2022. (📷Yasuo Osakabe)
@akivaf Taking this in a different direction: I worked in Micronesia for a while & there was a tradition of pushing a 'love stick' into the thatched wall of a person's house you wanted to date. Each person would have their own signature carved stick to ID them to their beloved.
Surangel Whipps Jr., the president of Palau, an archipelago in Micronesia, addressed delegates at COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh on November 8, criticizing wealthy governments and oil companies for accelerating the climate crisis.
“We have moved from mitigation to adaptation" - the President of the Federated States of Micronesia tells @BBCNews they're already seeing the effects of climate change and calls on countries like China, India, Mexico, Indonesia and Brazil to do more to act at #COP27 in Egypt.
@suevlee I’m happy that politicians in Hawaii are starting to notice the big populations of Micronesian American future voters. Guam has already started which is why some of the rhetoric has died down there.
@I_am_Antagonist @alexelbourne42 To be honest I’ve always felt island connections with Polys coming straight from the islands. Love and no judgement. But mainland and Hawaii is different.