Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 11, Number 2, 1 August 1994 — OHA funds NHLC help to homelands beneficiaries [ARTICLE]

OHA funds NHLC help to homelands beneficiaries

OHA's Board of Trustees agreed on July 12 to fund the Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation's Hawaiian Home Lands Project. The program "helps walk Hawaiians through the process of dealing with the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands," said NHLC Board President Georgiana Alvaro. The project provides legal representation to native Hawaiians and their successors in cases related to the Hawaiian Homes trust. NHLC is currently working on about 275 cases through this project. With this appropriation of $178,034, NHLC now gets about 75 percent of its funding from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs. OHA had already funded two other major NHLC projects, the OHA Land Title Project and the Native Rights Project. OHA's support amounts to nearly $1 million. The Hawai'i Bar Association is providing an additional $16,000 in funding for the Hawaiian Home Lands Project. Formed in 1974, NHLC works to "assert, protect and defend Hawaiian land and traditional rights."