What is your project?
Our project is about sustainability in Hawaii and, more importantly, around the world. For our individual Country Projects, our group was able to choose four countries from the larger region of Oceania. My country was Fiji. In Fiji, sustainability and food is a pertinent problem. We have reflected that onto Hawaii, and are volunteering during Saturdays of certain months to restore the river and kalo patches at Papahana Kualoa. Why is this project/topic important to research / address in your Country? in Hawaii? In my country (Fiji), I discovered that native people in Fiji are not sustainable, nor are they culturally active. Fijian culture is dying, like Hawaiian culture almost did long ago. It always pains me to imagine what my life would be like if the Hawaiian culture had died long ago. If no one is willing to revive the culture, and if no one is able to see the importance of remaining sustainable and projecting Malama Honua throughout Fiji and Oceania, what kind of world are we leaving for our children? What kind of morals and values are we teaching them? In my eyes, not the right ones. This is our legacy, our world, our culture, and our people. We only have one world, and we have to treat it carefully.
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