Marshall Islands Climate Youth Nonprofit
In late July, on the shores of the northern Pacific, a wave of young creatives and climate-minded thinkers gathered for something more than a “camp”: it was a movement. The Climate Adaptation Arts Seminar 2025 (CAAS) — organised by Jo-Jikum and held in the Marshall Islands capital of Majuro from July 28 to August 8, […]
This blog post was originally a press release published in the Marshall Islands Journal on May 4, 2021, and written by Mark Stege, who manages this project for Jo-Jikum. Meet Nicky Komanta, the newest member of Jo-Jikum’s widening network of climate warriors, and the lead citizen scientist in a new community-based groundwater monitor proof-of-concept project […]
This blog post summary of this year’s arts camp was written by our Youth Coordinator Johnny “Jobod” Silk, who took lead in coordinating the program. Jobod is in his last year at the College of the Marshall Islands. This is Jobod’s second time facilitating our arts camp – he was a participant in the first […]
The blog below is written by Digital Storytelling Intern Rosenet Timius who served as lead manager for the program. Rosie is in her last semester at the College of the Marshall Islands studying Liberal Arts. Previously, she managed the Environmental Artists in Residency program in Spring of 2021. The Digital Storytelling Workshop was the second […]
This past summer, Jo-Jikum was happy to finally host the second instalment of our Climate Change Arts Camp in its new iteration as the Climate and Health Arts Seminar. The Climate Change and Health Arts Seminar was an arts camp for high school students that allowed participants to explore the connections between climate change and […]
This was a statement written for “Recovering Better Together: Youth Choice” a #YouthChoiceWed virtual event coordinated by UN Youth Envoy’s office for World Environment Day that brought together young activists to debate with the UN for a green post-COVID19 recovery. The event was chaired by Ireland and the Marshall Islands. The statement delivered by the […]
This past March, Jo-Jikum had an opportunity to assist in the Nuclear Remembrance Day organizing here in the RMI. Nuclear Remembrance Day is an important opportunity for Marshallese to commemorate the legacy of nuclear testing conducted by the United States on our island. It’s an important yearly ceremony that honors those who died due to […]
Jo-Jikum recently hosted a workshop in April funded by International Organization on Migration and World Bank. The workshop was a pilot project for our larger Digital Storytelling Program – a program we’ve envisioned which would take over 6 months to complete. This workshop, instead, took 2 weeks. Our organization has experience teaching and creating workshops […]
A common part of our work at Jo-Jikum has been collaborations with outside researchers and artists. In July 2018, we were able to collaborate with two researchers: Joy Enomoto and Anja Kanngieser. Joy is a Native Hawaiian multi-disciplinary artist, activist, scholar and educator who is currently pursuing her Master’s degree at the Center for Pacific […]
A message from our Co-Founder and Director Kathy Jetnil-Kjiner: Iakwe, My name is Kathy and I am the co-founder of our organization. I co-founded Jo-Jikum in 2012 along with my cousins Tamera Heine, Hetine Heine, and Desmond Doulatram. We were fresh out of college in the US when we returned home to an island we […]