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1. 3 hours in open sea to discover – Abaiang Island hospitality in Kiribati

Our sturdy boat lost its top on the crash and crunch trip from Tarawa Island to Abaiang – highlights include:-

-my toe sliced and deciding to hang my leg over the side into the water

- Good news – no sharks were attracted to the trail of blood

- The Pacific Calling Partnership delegation all survived the 3 hours trip.

Abaiang has a wonderful Catholic school and old limestone church in the centre. However we focussed on the southern side with white sands, thatched huts, coconut trees and village hospitality.

The village elder told us about the sea flooding the taro plots and threats to housing and food supplies with warming climate and rising seas.

They prepared a feast in their mwaneaba meeting place. They cooked octopus – just caught in the sea – not my favourite dish. Kids played around us, the sea was blue, the palms green … and these villagers want to stay in their village.

Kiribati is low lying and vulnerable.

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2. Children of Kiribati and Climate Change

The children are beautiful, warm, laughing and school is valued. Most live in basic island accommodation with the  mwaneaba – community meeting area – where there’s eating, gathering, praying, sharing,  under a canopy of woven palms.

 The main island of Tarawa is densely populated with the ocean on one side and lagoons on the other. The other islands are sparsely populated, but all islands and peoples face serious issues of:-

safe water supply, sanitation, sea water rising with climate change.

 I’m here with the Pacific Calling Partnership to find out more about these low lying islands and take the message back that these islands with their people are at serious risk.

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