Fellows mentioned in this story: Josie Howard, Cohort VIII

From Civil Beat:

On a recent Tuesday, 14 students sat on pieces of cardboard spaced several feet apart in a shaded patch of lawn at Honolulu’s Washington Middle School. In front of each student was a frond from a coconut tree.

The middle schoolers watched as Jendrick Paul, founder and executive director of the Marshallese Community Organization of Hawai‘i, demonstrated how to create a basket out of the thick leaves.

The basket, known as “enra,” is a traditional vessel used to carry and transport food in the Marshall Islands. It’s formed by fusing together two similarly woven plates, which these students had learned how to make in a previous class.

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