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What can you do to help the people of Bikini Atoll?
Over the years there have been many requests by kind individuals, organizations and corporations about what they can do to help the people of Bikini Atoll get back to their homeland and to help the people survive where they live now.
Since their initial exodus in 1946, the people of Bikini Atoll have always had outstanding issues with the U.S. government with regard to their needs. Many promises have been made to the people of Bikini over the last half century; needless to say, it has always been a hard task for the Bikinian leaders to keep the U.S. government living up to these promises.
This page on our website is designed to give you a chance to get involved with the issues of the day regarding the people of Bikini Atoll.
The people of Bikini Atoll, Enewetak Atoll, Uterik Atoll and Rongelap Atoll, all victims of the 67 U.S. nuclear weapons tests conducted in the Marshall Islands from 1946 to 1958, have lost the U.S. funding for their health care program promised and mandated by the U.S. Congress in 1980, and that had been funded through 2001.
Please help us by e-mailing or writing to your Congressional representatives to request that they fund this much needed general health care program. Update, 12/2004: Thanks to a lot of work by many different people in the RMI and the US governments, this program received funding from Congress for FY 2005. Long term funding is still needed, however.
We still do not have the required funds to conduct a safe, radiological cleanup of Bikini Atoll. You can read about the trust funds we do have on our Reparations for Damages page. You can read about the amount of money needed to clean Bikini in the settlement of our lawsuit with the Nuclear Claims Tribunal in .pdf format: [download]
The Changed Circumstances Petition is the vehicle that the Marshall Islands government is using to try to get the U.S. to live up to their funding obligations for the nuclear victims. RMI Changed Circumstances petition for nuclear victims' compensation still needed from the United States [condensed]. Submitted to the United States government on 9/11/00. One of the best contributions an individual U.S. citizen can make to our cause is to write to your U.S. Congressman and demand that the situation with regard to the nuclear victims in the Marshall Islands get rectified quickly. Use this link for the U.S. Congress e-mail directory to do this. The people of Bikini are alive today because the media helped us perpetuate our story at a time when no one from the U.S. government would listen, and we appreciate and respect this effort. We are always open and welcome to entertain ideas about stories that would help us further our cause. MEDIA queries are always welcome and will be followed up on in a very timely manner. e-mail: bikini@ntamar.net
For further information about how to make philanthropic donations, or donations to our elementary schools or scholarship funds for the people of Bikini Atoll, please contact our liaison office at:
PO Box 1096
Majuro, MH 96960
Phone: (692) 625-3177
Fax: (692) 625-3330
e-mail: bikini@ntamar.netYou can
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