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image by Adam Lederer Artifacts taken from Easter Island in 1947 by Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl are being returned to their home,...

image supplied by Marla Wold In 2024, the EIF provided financial assistance to a record-breaking 28 outstanding Rapa Nui university...

Micaela Anakena Cofré Pakarati 2024   Wold Family Foundation Award Speech Therapy Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile The skills...

Easter Island's Pacific Ocean saved

Past theories have suggested that overexploitation of resources caused population collapse on Easter Island. Recent scientific studies...

Moana Canela Tepano Contesse   2024 Fraternal Order of the Moai Award   Sustainable Development and Territorial Planning Catholic...

Recent studies suggest that Polynesians settled Rapa Nui from migrants traveling from the west. Starting in Samoa, they reached the Cook...

Rapanui was annexed by Chile in 1888 and the Chilean government requires the use of Spanish as the official language in government,...

Located five hours west by plane from Santiago, Easter Island has been Chilean territory since 1888. In 1995, UNESCO named Easter Island...

Scholarship Success Story Enrique Rangitaki Ojeda Pakarati 2024 Erkiletian Family Foundation Award Field of Study: Architecture...

Enerike Ngaara Te Manu Carrasco Hotus Georgia Lee Memorial Scholarship Award Archaeology Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile 2022...

Guillermo Nicolás Atariki Álvarez Rivera Guillermo was a Fraternal Order of Moai Foundation Ohana Award scholarship recipient from 2018...

In November 1868, the crew of a British ship took two moai (first Moai Hava and then Hoa Hakananai'a) from Easter Island. Hoa Hakananai'a...

In March of this year, Members of Comunidad Indígena Ma ́u Henua, the organization that manages Rapa Nui National Park, found a new moai...

Our 2023 Fraternal Order of Moai Scholarship awarded to Moana Canela Tepano Contesse shares how she's benefitted from the EIF and...

Excited to share our most recent visit to Rapa Nui to meet some current and previous scholarship awardees! Pictured below: Back row: ...

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