Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 30, Number 11, 1 November 2013 — OHAIN THE COMMUNITY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

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CONCERT PROCEEDS BENEFIT EDUCATIONAL FUND Waimea Valley gave back to the community by making a portion of the second concert of its three-part Generations summer concert series a benefitfor Mālama Mele 0 Hawai'i Hawaiian Civic Club. The donation has been putinto the civic club's scholarship fund, creating the Gabby and Emily Pahinui Educational Fund. From left, Waimea Valley Executive Director Richard Pezzulo presents a eheek for $3,350 to civic club board members during the final concert of the series on Aug. 31 : Lanet Abrigo, pelekikena (president); Stan Combis, hope pelekikena (vice president); Erwin "Duke" Domingo, treasurer; "Mento Mele" Apana, a club member and emeee for the concert series; and Miehele Moore, secretary. Ah Lan Diamond, Waimea Valley cultural programs manager, is at far right. - Photo: Aliee Malepeai Silbanuz

"The world begins at home" was the message delivered by the Hōkūle'a crew, new and seasoned, as the double-hull voyaging eanoe arrived at Kailua Bay on Oct. 1 6. Kumu Hula Māpuana de Silva gathered her dancers to present the protocol for the Wednesday weleome and the 'awa ceremony for the crew, captains and navigators. On Oct. 1 9, de Silva gathered five Kailua hālau for the send-off. In addition to seasoned dancers and kumu, de Silva said, "The most important part of the hula presentation was all our keiki dancers joining together to dance Kawika and other traditional hula kahiko, ancient hula." Polynesian Voyaging Society is spending the firstyear of its Worldwide Voyage visiting communities on every Hawaiian island. Leaders in eaeh community the eanoe visited were invited to make a short voyage from one community to the next. Navigator Nainoa Thompson described the challenge ahead as a long voyage where there will be "days that take you to the bone." He told the kumu and dancers that it would be those moments that we need you, need the energy you have given us. The eanoe will leave Hawai'i in May, voyaging to the South Pacific and around the world. OHA is providing $300,000 to help fund the society's worldwide voyage. - Photo: tynn Cook

CHARTER SCHOOL RECEIVES DONATED SUPPLIES For the second year, OHA and Hui 'Ōiwi, the Native Hawaiian Club at Honolulu Community College, have partnered to donate school supplies to students, providing basic educational tools to keiki during the eeonomie crunch. This year's donation provided boxes of binders, notebooks, paper, pencils, crayons, colored markers, glue and cleaning supplies to Hālau Kū Māna Public Charter School, where more than half of the students are of Hawaiian ancestry. Here, OHA's Charene Haliniak, standing second from right, visited the Makiki school on Oct. 2 with Hui 'Ūiwi members to drop off the donated goods to po'o kumu (head of school) Mahina Paishon Duarte, standing at right, and students. - Photo: OHA Communications