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Autumn Wells <br />8th grade student <br />Volcano School of Arts & Sciences <br />Volcano, HI 96785 <br />February 4,2019 <br />Charter Commission <br />Hilo, HI 96720 <br />Regarding: 2% Land Fund Program <br />Aloha Charter Commission, <br />My name is Autumn Wells, my parents are Jane & Keoki Wells and <br />we live in Volcano, HI. I'm an 8th grader at VSAS, and I'm ecstatic, <br />humbled, and happy, that I get to go down twice a month with my class to <br />help a special place in my community, to malama the aina! Kawa is special <br />to me because it gives me a day to de -stress, relax, and hang out with my <br />friends, while helping the rare and endangered environment down at Kawa. <br />The first time I went to Kawa it was a new experience for me, being at a <br />place that needed lots of love and care, but now with the help from Kumu <br />James Akau, Uncle Duane, Aunty Clarissa Pua, and Uncle Kaui Felder, <br />( Na Mamo 0 Kawa) it has changed drastically with blood, sweat, and a lot <br />of hard work. Now we can walk down groomed paths that we can say we <br />fixed by ourselves to preserve such a gorgeous place. Kawa is a "wahi <br />pana" that future kids from schools that can hopefully help and maintain <br />forever. The experience down at Kawa is an experience that teaches me <br />many different things about myself, things that I wouldn't have learned in a <br />traditional classroom. <br />Down at Kawa we do multiple things to help the environment, like <br />cleaning up plastic that washes up on shore, making rock walls to section <br />off and protect wildlife, planting native plants like a`ali`i and alahe`e, but <br />also clearing out invasive plants that are hurting the natives. What Kawa <br />teaches us is how to work together on projects out of the classroom and <br />Comm. No. 21.147 <br />