From The Garden Island:

There are over 200 former residents of the Marshall Islands on Kaua‘i, and they are adapting to Kaua‘i’s (comparatively) fast-paced lifestyle, leaders of the community said last week.  

The first wave of Marshallese came to Kaua‘i around 2005, according to Pastor Bemry Lieney Bunglick of the Marshallese United Church of Christ (UCC) in Hanapepe. As people find jobs in area restaurants and hotels, they use their money, as well as their annual tax returns, to reunify their families.

“We don’t know when there is another wave coming,” Bemry said. “I feel that those who come here are moving to a better place to maintain their families with better education, health and all that. That is my theory.”

Bemry said he believes that finding better employment opportunities make the other adjustment issues manageable. With a job, people can maintain a stable family. Read the full story.

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—Chad Blair