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Social Enterprise: Black Pearls from Nukuoro Atoll

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By the way, Mike and Mary work for the University of Guam at the Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities, Education, Research and Services (CEDDERS), who manages the Pacific Consortium for Instructional Materials Accessibility Project (CIMAP), which is the whole reason I'm here in the Pacific! And, the product is beautiful.

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Donna Leads a Home Visit to a Blind Toddler

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Donna is the main reason I'm involved with this project: she's an itinerant teacher of the blind in rural Minnesota. She has also made Micronesia her professional mission focus. The community helps out. Carlina explains that there's a lot of family support for Aleckson and his siblings.