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Travis Wood <br />7th grader <br />Volcano School of Arts and Sciences <br />Volcano, Hawaii 96785 <br />February 5, 2019 <br />Charter Commission <br />Hilo, Hawaii 96720 <br />Regarding: 2% Land Fund Program <br />Aloha Commissioners, <br />My name is Travis Wood and my parents are Alex Wood and Lisa Canale; we <br />live in Volcano. I am lucky to go to Kawa because I get to understand Kapu Aloha <br />or sacred love and what it is to Kawa. Kawa is important to the community, all my <br />schoolmates, the teachers, and me because it is a beautiful place that has so much <br />history and hopefully it will hold its beauty and history forever. <br />Every three Wednesdays, my class goes to Kawa to Malama Aina and Aloha <br />Aina. We plant native plants like wiliwili, kou, niu, coconut, kukui, and naupaka <br />to name a few, along with that we take away invasives and move rocks to help with <br />beach erosion. Before our class came to Kawa there were loose rocks everywhere, <br />the invasive plants were overgrown and there was so much trash. Now after almost <br />two years our hard work, there is a working fish pond, we rarely ever see trash and <br />only a small amount of invasives. And if you continue the 2% Land Fund, we can <br />continue our work at Kawa along with the people from Na Mamo o Kawa like <br />Kumu James Akau, Uncle Duane, Auntie Clarissa Pua, and Uncle Kaui Felder and <br />restore Kawa to its past beauty. If you continue to buy more land like this, Hawaii <br />can have more beautiful land. <br />Comm. No. 21.143 <br />