Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 24, Number 10, 1 October 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-apprenticeship construction career training program. As a result, full scholarships are currently available to Hawaiians interested in pursuing a construction career for courses at the Construction Training Center of the Pacific. Applications for the Kapili Pū Scholarships are now available online at www.Construction Training.org, or ean be picked up at the Building Industry Association of Hawai'i office at 1727 Dillingham Blvd. 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 applieahon process is open to all interested Native Hawaiian applicants 18 years of age and older.