Howzit! Our names are Keaouli Ross, Alina Mauai, Tiamana Arboleda and Keʻala Cabison-Kahoonei, and we’re the founders of Sustainability Central! We are working right now on our World History Kahiau Project, in which we, as a group, have to focus in on one issue in Hawaii and around our region (Oceania), and do something to improve it. Our group’s problem is hunger, poverty, and cultural survivance (emphasized on self-sustainability). Our basic idea premise is this: if we can learn and teach others how to be self-sustainable in the same ways that our kupuna were, we will be able to decrease the hunger and poverty rate in Hawaii (and greater Oceania) while simultaneously aiding in the revival of our culture. We will be helping out at Papahana Kuaola in Waipao. Papahana Kuaola is a non-profit organization located in Waipao, Heʻeia, Koʻolaupoko, Oʻahu. Their mission is to create quality educational programs focused on environmental restoration and economic sustainability fully integrated with Hawaiian knowledge in order to exemplify a lifestyle respectful of kānaka, ʻāina, and ākua. They are a multi-faceted program servicing Oʻahu and Molokaʻi that looks to ensure that the future we build today can actually sustain us into tomorrow. We need economic self-sufficiency without sacrificing ourselves and our ʻāina. Growing up in our beautiful island home, we have been taught nothing else but to take what is given to us, and never to grow things and be able to sustain ourselves in the old days, our kupuna were able to sustain their communities without the help of foreigners. Now, external forces and Western societies are all that we depend on. I'm Because we are lucky enough to attend a Hawaiian-based school that advocates sustainability through cultural practices, we have an obligation to follow in the footsteps of our kupuna and to teach others (and ourselves) to be a more sustainable people. For more information about our nonprofit and our group members, click the link on the left. |
The nonprofit group that we are working with is Papahana Kualoa. Papahana Kuaola, located in the ahupuaʻa of Heʻeia in the ʻili of Waipao, is a mālama ʻāina based learning organization that is connecting the area's past with a sustainable future. In their own words, "Our mission is to create quality learning focused on Hawaiʻi's cultural and natural resources, environmental restoration, and economic sustainability fully integrated with Hawaiian knowledge in order to exemplify a lifestyle respectful of kānaka, ʻāina, and akua." Through Papahana Kuaolaʻs monthly stream and loʻi restoration workdays, we can help them to improve the sustainability of Heʻeia, and we can use what we learn there to teach others and advocate about sustainable foods and practices. Our endorsement of sustainable practices may spark a fire into other people.
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Papahana KuaolaOur NonprofitThe nonprofit group that we are working with is Papahana Kualoa. Papahana Kuaola, located in the ahupuaʻa of Heʻeia in the ʻili of Waipao, is a mālama ʻāina based learning organization that is connecting the area's past with a sustainable future. In their own words, "Our mission is to create quality learning focused on Hawaiʻi's cultural and natural resources, environmental restoration, and economic sustainability fully integrated with Hawaiian knowledge in order to exemplify a lifestyle respectful of kānaka, ʻāina, and akua." Through Papahana Kuaolaʻs monthly stream and loʻi restoration workdays, we can help them to improve the sustainability of Heʻeia, and we can use what we learn there to teach others and advocate about sustainable foods and practices. Our endorsement of sustainable practices may spark a fire into other people.
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