Local NGO creates video project to empower women of the FSM

Micronesian Productions

April 21, 2023

Pohnpei, FSM - Micronesian Productions, a local NGO located in Pohnpei, has recently completed a project entitled, “FSM Courageous Women”. This project, funded by the Government of Canada through the Canada Fund for Local Initiatives (CFLI), was created with plans to encourage women and girls throughout the FSM to strive to achieve greatness regardless of their background by highlighting the stories of courageous women in FSM and using them as examples of how to overcome the challenges that gender has given women in the FSM in the past.

Micronesian Productions traveled throughout the 4 FSM States and interviewed 6 women from each state. These women were selected by a committee of their peers who were thinking of women with empowering stories or backgrounds- women who were not necessarily fully educated or who came from wealthy families, but rather, women who had various struggles or hardships. The stories highlight women who, no matter the circumstances, strived to make better lives for themselves and their families.

Each of the 24 women have their own 5-6 minute video to tell their story. Micronesian Productions began releasing the women’s videos starting on March 8th 2023, in honor of International Women's Day, and will continue to release them throughout the month of April.

The videos are available on both Facebook and Micronesian Productions’ YouTube pages. https://www.facebook.com/

MicroProduxn/videos https://www.youtube.com/@ micronesianproductions2780/videos

In addition to the videos, an e-book with their stories and pictures was created and is available in the link below. If you’re not on Facebook or Youtube, or want to download a copy of these videos, they’re all available on Google Drive through the following link: https://drive.google.com/drive/ folders/1edpq0-7WeJkms7961sEQ8F JG3AgHGwiE?usp=sharing_eil_se_ dm&ts=6445ac99