HomeMy WebLinkAboutComm No 0021.153 - Testimony - CA-7 - PONC fund and Maintenance fundKawa Pomai ka'i I Kalani Kajiwara-ke
8th grade
Volcano School of Arts & Science
Volcano Hawaii 96185
February 5, 2019
Dear, Charter Commission
Hilo,Hawaii 96120
Regarding: 2% land fund program
Aloha Charter Commision
My name is Pomai Kajiwara-Ke. My parents are Kehau Ke and Kurt
Kajiwara and we live in Pahala. I'm a Eighth grade student, I'm honored
to go down to Kawa and malama the `aina down there. Kawa is nice,
awesome and valuable. When our class first went down there it was
over grown and not being maintained.
With the 2% land fund we were able to help Kawa with the work and
guidance of Na Mama 0 Kawa - Kumu James Akau, Uncle Pua & Aunty
Clarissa, Uncle Kaui Felder, we cleaned and made a difference big time.
With the help of these people we are preserving our heritage. We have
been moving, cleaning and watering things like rocks, branches, raking
up leaves, watering and planting plants etc.
Comm. No. 21.153
Kawa is a wahi pana, a sacred place that should stay the way it is. That
way, when I go there when I get older, it's going to be accessible to
teach the next generation. Instead of it being owned by others that
would make it private and would have to pay to go in. They may put
rules like no surfing or no fishing and that takes away the fun, and
teachings of the next generation. Now, I have been fishing down there
every time we finish working, and have caught a lot of papio and
brought them home to eat.
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This is a Papio and has many different Papio species !!!
Thanks and mahalo Charter Commission for reading my note to you and
the importance of Kawa.
Aloha-Pomai Kajiwara-Ke