Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 32, Number 4, 1 April 2015 — Matsuoka honored [ARTICLE]

Matsuoka honored

The Nahonal Disaster Preparedness Training Center has awarded Jon Matsuoka of the Consuelo Foundation its 2015 Community Resilience Leadership Award at the Paeihe Risk Management 'ohana conference. Matsuoka is being honored for

his work building resilience in Hawai'i and the Philippines. In the wake of Typhoon Haiyan last year, the Consuelo Foundation is providing assistance to widows by providing counseling, gifting coastal communities with boats to help them regain their fishing industries and rebuilding damaged day care centers and schools. Matsuoka is also being honored for his 20 years of work at the University of Hawai'i-Mānoa and his time as dean of the School of Social Work.