{"id":401210,"date":"2023-11-30T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=401210"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"MCCA-to-cap-the-year-with-mot-Walk-on-Tinian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/MCCA-to-cap-the-year-with-mot-Walk-on-Tinian\/","title":{"rendered":"MCCA to cap the year with \u00c5mot Walk on Tinian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having just completed their three-day Luta tour this past Nov. 10 to 12 as part of their \u00c5mot Walk Tours throughout the Marianas, the Micronesian Climate Change Alliance is gearing up for their final \u00c5mot Walk this upcoming month, this time on Tinian.<\/p>\n

Cami Egurolla, director of Communications for the Micronesian Climate Change Alliance, told Saipan Tribune<\/em> that this is going to be a significant event as it will cap the \u00c5mot Walks for the year.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll be going to Tinian and arriving on Dec. 8, leaving on Dec 12. Right now, because of the collaborating nature of it, we\u2019re still fine-tuning the itinerary. It\u2019s being led by Carmen and Dorothy San Nicolas. They\u2019ll be the one organizing and putting the itineraries together,\u201d she said. \u201cThe one on Tinian will be the last \u00c5mot Walk that we\u2019ll have on an island. Right now on our flyers, Tinian is the last Island that we\u2019re going to be stopping by.\u201d<\/p>\n

She conceded that it is part of their intention to incorporate the Northern Islands, but \u201cwe\u2019re not going to be able to go to any of the Northern Islands north of Saipan [right now]. If we do go ahead with our intentions for G\u00e5ni, it will probably be out on the water,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

That makes Tinian the last stop for \u00c5mot Walk. \u201cTinian will be really important to this year\u2019s \u00c5mot Walk because it will be closing out on a specific landmass,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

She said the Micronesian Climate Change Alliance is hoping to get the word out before they go to Tinian, especially with what\u2019s going on in the Pacific right now.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are a lot of calls to peace and the \u00c5mot Walk is our way to offer prayer, and is even a sense of unity for the folks on our islands. While our islands are constantly being talked about in these political spaces\u2026we want to make sure that folks are aware of what is going on, and feel called to join us as we call for peace and unity in Pacific,\u201d said Egurolla.<\/p>\n

She said their past \u00c5mot Walk on Luta had been a great experience as they joined with Lemai Love, Our Commonwealth 670, alongside the Municipality of Rota, the Department of Community and Cultural Affairs, and the Rota Municipal Council, for the three-day activity. She said they had a unity ceremony, as well as tours to various historically significant sites, a gupot, and an \u00c5mot Walk at Hatdin \u00c5mot Chamorro, Rota\u2019s very own Garden of Chamorro Medicine.<\/p>\n

A total of 15 participants joined the walk, and the hospitality team was another six people, and this doesn\u2019t include the crowd at the opening ceremony.<\/p>\n

Besides the Amot Walk, the group had traditional demonstrations and on-site cooking demonstrations, Egurolla said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a three-day event filled with food and great connections with each other. We were so touched by the amount of hospitality that the people of Rota [showed] us,\u201d she said. \u201cRota was truly so magical, the island was so welcoming.\u201d<\/p>\n

Egurolla said the Rota walk had been their third one so far, with the first done on Saipan during the Marianas History Conference, and the second in Guam.<\/p>\n

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Participants in the Luta (Rota) \u00c5mot Walk Tours stop for a photo on Rota from Nov. 10 to 12, 2023.<\/p>\n

-CAMI EGUROLLA
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