Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 24, Number 8, 1 August 2007 — Construction training [ARTICLE]

Construction training

The Hawai'i Building Industry Foundation was awarded a $150,000 grant from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs to prepare Native Hawaiians to enter the construction industry through the foundation's pre-apprentice-ship construction career training program. As a result, full scholarships are currently available to Hawaiians for courses at the Construction Training Center of the Pacific. Applications for the Kapili Pū Scholarships are

now available online at www.ConstructionTraining. org, or ean be picked up at the Building Industry Association of Hawai'i office at 1727 DillinghamBoulevard.Interested applicants may also contact Barbara Nishikawa at 847-4666, ext 212. Eligibility requirements follow OHA's scholarship guidelines, and the scholarships are applied directly to tuition, course materials and/or books only. The full scholarship application process is open to all Native Hawaiian applicants 18 years of age and older.