[WATCH]: RMI Students Move Toward Healthy Living - English_Marshallese sub

On Friday August 29thth, the Marshall Islands Public School system joined other key allies in a long awaited assault on non-communicable diseases (NCD's), Marshall Islands Middle School, has agreed to become a "Pilot Project School" for what has been dubbed by its designers as the "Emergency Comprehensive Health Initiative". "This program will provide students the tools they need to combat NCD's like Obesity, heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes", said Majuro Middle School Principal Lenn Lenja & Majuro Middle School Vice-Principal Atte Lang "Our objectives are pretty simple 1) to teach every child about chronic NCD's, what causes them, how to avoid them, and if necessary, how to reverse them. 2) to facilitate a new focus

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