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Christina Stinnett
Christina Stinnett (known as "Kiki") is a Micronesian Women's rights activist and businesswoman, who is the President of Chuuk Women's Council (CWC), which overlooks more than 60 women's organisations within Chuuk State in the Federated States of Micronesia. Career Stinnett established the first travel agency, Truk Travel Unlimited, in the state in March 1984 and owns the Truk Stop Hotel, along with the restaurant at Truk Lagoon Dive Center. The Chuuk Women's Council (CWC) was established in the late 1980s and attempts to educate and empower women on various women topics such as leadership, education and health, and preservation of culture. Stinnett is President of the CWC. She also sits on the board of the Chuuk Conservation Society, Chuuk State Board of Education, and FSM Women in Business Network, of which she is the Vice President of their alliance of NGOs. In October 2014, Stinnett was one of around 300 people invited to attend the 3rd FSM Women's Conference in Kolonia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Federated States Of Micronesia
The Federated States of Micronesia (; abbreviated FSM) is an island country in Oceania. It consists of four states from west to east, Yap, Chuuk, Pohnpei and Kosraethat are spread across the western Pacific. Together, the states comprise around 607 islands (a combined land area of approximately ) that cover a longitudinal distance of almost just north of the equator. They lie northeast of Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, south of Guam and the Marianas, west of Nauru and the Marshall Islands, east of Palau and the Philippines, about north of eastern Australia, 3,400 km (2,133 mi) southeast of Japan, and some southwest of the main islands of the Hawaiian Islands. While the FSM's total land area is quite small, the country's waters occupy more than of the Pacific Ocean, giving the country the 14th-largest exclusive economic zone in the world. The sovereign island nation's capital is Palikir, located on Pohnpei Island, while the largest city is Weno, located in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |