GUAHAN Project History - Pohnpeian Translation by Praisleen Loney   

Podopod en GUAHAN Project

GUAHAN Project ieite AIDS service organization nan Guam.  Tepin Wiahwida nan pahr 2003. Wiahwida sang rehn irail tohn pwihn en doadoak en AIDS.  Iei wasaht meh nimwen Guam AIDS Memorial Quilt, wehweki kataman pen aramas meh mehkila AIDS pil nimwen Pacific resource oh wasahn train center. GUAHAN Project kida sawas tohto meh sohte pweipwei soangen tesin HIV meh kin tes ong teh nan ewen aramas meh sohte kamedek, tesin nenek kan iei sexually transmitted diseases, kaweid, kosukul, pil refer iong rehn toakte. Koaros tes eh rir sohte meh pahn ese.

Pil kapataieng, GUAHAN Project padangki de ke ese kiong aramas ekei kapwal en soumwau soangen, soumwau en limongmong, smoke laud, cancer, soumwau en suke, soumwau en nan nta iei hemophilia, oh soumwau en mohrourou.  Wahsat pil kasansal dahr arail doadoak mwau oh irail pil wiada sawas ong nan community kan, ong kahudy violence de kamakam ong lih oh serepein. Doadaok weht oh sawas pene, Wiawida da sang kalok oh kousukul ong nan community kan pwehn sewese lih oh serepein kakelail ih irail ong arail ahnan ahkan de arail mour en mwuhr.

GUAHAN Project pil sawas kida kosukul meh sohte pwehipwei soangen workshops oh training sessions ong nan community kan.  Pil kihda support groups, pahs ong nan kouson kan de nimwen wini kan oh wahlang irail dipsou en sewese irail soangen mehn duhduh, bruhs, sampoo ong aramas meh aniki soumwau en HIV/AIDS nan Guam oh pil sawas ong nan sapw deke tei kan.  GUAHAN Project pil kihda arail opis ong organization kan pwe rehn kak kohdo uhs de doadoaki arail wahsa.  Reh pil kelail ong doadoak nan community volunteer foundation kan.

Koaros dipsouen kosukul kan sohte pweipwei pil internet access.  Tohn doadoak en GUAHAN Project kin pein wiada arail dipsouen kosukul ni loakaian Guam, Pohnpei de ruuk de pil sang ni sapw toror tei kan nan Pacific de Asia. Pil kapacha ieng, GUAHAN Project pil kida tesin HIV meh sohte pweipwei oh meh rir, screening ong koaros meh anane sawas ong nan paliwar, pil tesin soumwauen nenek kan tes weht sang ni kench.

International, oh sehnt sang U.S. Federal ni local funding meh sewese uchung GUAHAN Projects doadoak kan.  GUAHAN Project oh Guam Public Health Department pil kin sawas pene oh doadoak pene.  University en Guam oh ekei community organization kan pil corporate partner pil kin iang doadoak weht pwe rehn sohng en peiong deh powehdi soumwauen AIDS.

                                    GUAHAN Project Mission meh irail kin doadoaki

GUAHAN Project eh wiawida pwehn kak komourila aramas sang soumwauen HIV/AIDS oh ia mwemwen ah keh pahn doare iuk asang soumwau keper weht, kosukul ih irail ni duen soumwau weht, kah ese, oh wahlang sawas ong aramas nan Guam community ong meh tepdar ankida soumwauen HIV. Pil eh wia wasahn sawas ong aramas meh anikidier HIV/AIDS nan Guam oh nan sapw deke tei kan.

GUAHAN Project pil kihda sawas ong resources, training, kawehweki ia mwemwen soumwauen nenek kan, limongmong oh HIV/AIDS.  GUAHAN Project kalapalap ih peseng arail doadoak oh sawas lel nan regional Pacific island jurisdictions nan sapw tei kan. ong nan sawas pene de partner en network kan.

Regional partner kaht iei:

• American Samoa
• Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas islands (CNMI)
• Federated States of Micronesia (FSM)
• Guam
• Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI)
• Republic of Palau

Director’s Notes:  The Normal Heart
“The human contribution is the essential ingredient.  It is only the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.”  These are the words of Ethel Perry Andrus.  Words that truly represent the work you are about to witness tonight.  The Normal Heart was just another job I auditioned for as a professional actor.  I played the role of Mickey Marcus.  But I did not realize the impact and the importance of this work as a theatre piece and a message piece.  We learn a great deal about each other based on our histories and actions.  This play is a history on the plague we know as AIDS and is one of most important examples of getting to know what we are up against as activists and people living in the age of this disease. 

The presentation of this play is not as unorthodox as you might think.  Plays go through processes of evolution known as staged readings.  The directors, producers, and playwrights need to see the play “on its feet” and more importantly the actors giving the characters a voice.  We as actors kindly and graciously give you this work as an expression of our dedication to educating the public about AIDS and the prejudice that surrounds it.  The work itself is presented in the simplest form possible – bare stage, uniformed costumes, and basic lighting.  It is now your job to use your imagination to create the scenarios and situations.  We hope to help you in the images you create. 

Now we ask you to contribute and to give of yourself for this cause we feel so strongly. 

Ricky Vergara, Director, The Normal Heart (Read More)