The Mana'o Foundation

The following  is from The Mana'o Foundation founders. Please read on, and note you are invited to attend the events and get involved. They have a wonderful vision for our Big Island families, and I'm personally excited for the future of this foundation:

THE MANA’O FOUNDATION--“EMPOWERING THROUGH EDUCATION, 

CREATING A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE FOR HAWAII”

"We are excited to introduce you to the Mana’o Foundation & Camp Akamai Environmental Education and Resource Center! This is a community driven project to create an environmental education camp. Servicing grades K-12; programs to include, but not limited on & off site workshops, day & overnight residential camps, travel camps, multi-user group retreats and specialty camps. 
Camp will be dedicated to teaching the youth of Hawai’i how to live sustainably, through teaching of farming traditions; how to create and maintain sustainable community farms. All of our classes & lectures will be archived to save the mana’o of the kupuna for future generations to come!! 
Camp will be a meetingspace where the communities of Hawai’i can come together to share the mana’o (knowledge) and teach the Hawaiiana traditional culture, arts, and crafts. We will be offering numerous classes and lectures to empower the youth through education by teaching, encouraging and providing a fun, but yet safe environment. We welcome you to help us in this effort, for it takes a tribe to raise our youth.

How can you help? 
Many ways…for starters, if you are local (on-island) the best way to help out is to get involved by volunteering, coming to one of our planning meetings and/or attend one of our monthly events. 
This month we are having a meeting on-site
 Saturday, March 30 @ 8:30 followed by a work party with lunch to follow. Come help us build the imu and plant oha. Address is 23 Ka Ohuwalu Drive, right behind the Maku'u Farmer's Market. Please contact us for more info and directions.
 If you are not able to attend the 3/30 meeting, come talk story with us at the Prince Kuhio Merrie Monarch Craft Fair from April 4-6 from 10 AM-6 PM.

If you’re not local please consider showing your support today by donating a cash contribution. By gifting a $5.00-$25.00 donation you will receive a 8.5”x5.5” postcard of Pele’s Fire: The Summit Glow of the Halema’uma’u Crater inside the Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park. By donating $100.00-$199.00 you will be gifted an 8”x12” metallic frameless high gloss print of Pele’s Fire. A $200.00 or more donation, you will be gifted an 16”x24” metallic frameless high gloss print of Pele’s Fire. If interested please email us your name, telephone, e-mail address and shipping address at akamaiadv@gmail.com.
Our web site (www.manaofoundation.org) is still under construction, however we hope to have it up and able to accept funds by April 1, 2013-we will keep you posted! 

Mahalo Nui Loa for your time and we appreciate your support. Please share our mission with your O’hana, friends & the community. We hope this Spring is one filled with good health, happiness and lokahi!!! Blessings to you all…"
Hayley and Tyler Ford
akamaiadv@gmail.com