Kua o ka La Public Charter School in Puna is having a special fundraising car wash and fair with light entertainment from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday at Cooper Center in Volcano to help pay for students’ travel costs to Tahiti.
Kua o ka La Public Charter School in Puna is having a special fundraising car wash and fair with light entertainment from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday at Cooper Center in Volcano to help pay for students’ travel costs to Tahiti.
“Specifically lodging, transportation and food while students and staff visit our cousins in Tahiti,” said school board member and trip coordinator Ka‘imi Kaupiko. “This experience will connect us to our wa‘a culture, to the Hokule‘a as they make their worldwide voyage and to Tahitian wayfinding and celestial navigation.”
School students and staff will be in Tahiti from April 15-30. While in Tahiti, the group will visit three islands, Papeete, Mo‘orea and Raiatea.
“We will meet local practitioners, cultural experts and educational institutions,” Kaupiko said. “We will be sharing our cultural projects and performing traditional hula and oli protocol while we visit the places and people.”
The fundraiser at Cooper Center will mainly be a car wash with a cost of $10 for cars and $15 for trucks and vans. There also will be food, plants and arts and crafts for sale and a “bounce” castle for keiki. The food menu includes hot dogs, chili and rice bowls, Portuguese bean soup, pastele stew plate, assorted drinks and snacks. The plants were grown and arts and crafts created by Kua o ka La students. Kaupiko says live and recorded music is planned.
Kaupiko said donations are welcome and the school is thankful to all who contributed so far.
Cooper Center is located at 19-4030 Wright Road. For more information, contact Kaupiko at 937-1310 or kkaupiko@gmail.com, or visit www.kuaokala.org.