Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 27, Number 9, 1 September 2010 — OHA visits Molokaʻi [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

OHA visits Molokaʻi

Lisa Asato KaWai Ola OHA Trustees, managers and staff were treated to a Hawaiian song by students of Nā Pua No'eau when they visited Moloka'i for OHA' s annual Community Meeting on the Friendly Isle in August. The mele eame during a community exchange in whieh OHA leaders updated the Moloka'i community on OHA's 2010-2016 Strategic Plan and ongoing programs and efforts, and residents shared their mana'o and gratitude. About 60 people attended the Aug. 18 Community Meeting at Kulana 'Ōiwi, and many of those who addressed the crowd thanked OHA for its support. A Board of Trustees meeting was held the next day. Besides Nā Pua No'eau, an educational program for gifted and talented Native

Hawaiians, for whieh OHA provides major funding, other groups that made presentations or addressed the crowd at the Community Meeting included community leader Walter Ritte and Desiree Puhi, Executive Director of Moloka'i Community Heahh Center and Medical Director Kawika Liu, who updated the group on the ongoing project to bring holistic medical services to the site of the old Pau Hana Inn in Kaunakakai. Also attending were representatives of Aka'ula School and Kualapu'u, a public conversion charter school. OHA has helped fund both programs and earlier in the day, the group visited both schools, including taking a tour of the Aka'ula campus and sitting in on classrooms. OHA next heads to Lāna'i for a Commu- _ nity Meeting Sept 15 at 6:30 p.m. at Lana'i High School cafeteria, and a Board of Trustees meeting Sept. 16 at 9 a.m. Kō'ele Lodge library. ■

OHA SITE VISIT Members of Kako'o 'Ōiwi escorted OHA Trustees and staff on an informational walking tour of the Māhuahua 'Ai o Hoi project in He'eia, 'Oahu, on Aug. 1 0. - Photo: Courtesy ofteah Burrows.

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