REACH-MI Soft Launch

Meeting convened at 12PM-1PM Attended: Ellen K. Milne, Malia Heine, Lani Kramer, Rosania Bennet, Fred Pedro & Desmond N. Doulatram Meeting focused on the December 15th 2015 Launch Luncheon at Sandy’s scheduled at 10AM-11AM. (All members are to arrive early preferably 9AM to help set up, No Marshallese Time please) The Menu is as follows with three dishes to be catered by Sandy’s (Rosania to follow up on the quotation) Fred and His friend Richard Liebert contributed 200 dollars which will be used towards launch for media exposure Catering 1. Club House sandwich (Sandy’s catering) 2. Coffee & Drinks (50 Water/Sandy’s catering) 3. Mini donuts/Kataban (Sandy’s catering/Billing to Angeline) 4. Banana (Sandy’s catering/Billing to Lani) *Rosania (Sushi, Sandy’s catering but billing to Rosania) Member donations for Luncheon Eggs (we donate) Tuna Sandwich (Malia Heine) Chocolate Chip Cookies (Lani Kramer) Cake (Ellen K. Milne) *Other Contributions by Members of REACH-MI are encouraged.

Invitations to be sent out by Friday Finalize guest list by Wednesday The Aim is to keep it a MODEST LAUNCH with 30 guests.

The Guest List is as follows 1. Bank Managers a. Bank of Guam (Jackie Solomon) b. Bank of Marshall Islands (Patrick Chen) c. Marshall Islands Development Bank (Amon Tibon) 2. Ministry of Education a. Education Commissioner (Evelyn Konou) 3. Private Schools a. Coop Principal b. Baptist Principal c. SDA Principal 4. Colleges a. College of the Marshall Islands President

b. USP Director (Irene Taafaki) 5. Marshall Islands Journal a. Editor (Giff Johnson) 6. Nuclear Claims Tribunal a. Bill Graham (Special Guest) 7. Churches a. Protestant (Reverend Enja Enos) b. Roman Catholic (Father Sabio) c. Assembly of God (Reverend Heinrick George) 8. Four Atolls a. KBE (Wilson Note) b. Rongelap (James Matayoshi) c. Utrik (John Kaiko) d. Ene Wetak (Jackson Ading) 9. Majuro Atoll Local Government a. Mayor Mudge Samuel 10. Office of the President a. President Christopher J. Loeak 11. Council of Iroij a. Chairman Kotak Loeak 12. V7EMMAN a. Fred Pedro 13. KEWAN JELA a. Ted Kiluwe, Arthur Laukon, Etc. 14. NGOS dealing with Nuclear Issues a. Iju in Ean (Abacca Maddison) b. ERUB (President) c. Elemondrik (President Brooke Takala) 15. CMI Nuclear Institute a. Mary Silk 16. Ministry of Foreign Affairs a. Minister Tony DeBrum 17. Cancer Coalition a. Director (Neiar Kabua) 18. Mona eo an Kaibuke Tobinwa a. Iroijlaplap Lein Zedekaia 19. Camera Man a. Lokko 20. Law Society a. Witten Philippo 21. Japan Counterpart The Program is as Follows: Opening Prayer: Reverend Heinrick George Opening Statement by REACH-MI Representative: Ellen Milne

Keynote Address: Bill Graham Special Guest Poetry: Kathy Jetnil Kijiner Closing Statement by REACH-MI Representative: Rosania Bennet Closing Prayer: Reverend Heinrick George Master of Ceremony: Desmond Narain Doulatram unless of course some other member wants to volunteer. He will gladly give up the post, hehehe. **Please remember that all members are to wear BLUE as it is the THEME COLOR and LANI KRAMER suggested we color coordinate.

Other related News: -February 22, 2016 is the deadline for submissions for Logo Competition to give time to review and finalize winner. Announcement of winner is earmarked for March 1st 2016. March 1st is the climax of week long activities.

-Advisor Fred Pedro is suggesting REACH-MI to contact RMI NTA to play educational videos or nuclear legacy related videos considering it’s the 70 th anniversary.

-Lani Kramer has met with the Presdient and Treasurer of ATOMIC VETERANS OF AMERICA and they are eager to run our story. To be Confirmed which story to print in our follow up meetings as we are a fairly new NGO and she wanted to give a story showcasing progress.

-First Friday of Every Month is a REACH-MI regular meeting schedule. Please remember that if it falls on a holiday, it will be the next working day.

-Drop Box will be the new place where all meeting minutes are going to be uploaded.

Just open the link VAL YSAWA sent if you missed anything. Emails are a bit hard to follow so all Meetings will be archived in the REACH-MI dropbox account for a one stop location.

- Japan counterparts to recieve an invitation, brochure and program for the launch and other communications (Perhaps same communications extended to our American Atomic bomb veterans).

PLEASE ADD ON if I missed anything.