Comments on: Grant supports non-traditional Native Hawaiian students at Maui College /news/2014/07/25/grant-supports-non-traditional-native-hawaiian-students-at-maui-college/ News from the University of Hawaii Fri, 29 Oct 2021 00:29:03 +0000 hourly 1 By: TE. Uʻilani Kūhaulua /news/2014/07/25/grant-supports-non-traditional-native-hawaiian-students-at-maui-college/#comment-146955 Mon, 28 Jul 2014 07:19:01 +0000 http://www.hawaii.edu/news/?p=26372#comment-146955 Aloha mai kākou. I am at a crossroads in my life. God has blessed me with the opportunity to finally attend college. After raising my 7 natural born children and 2 hānai. Now I am a Tūtū to 15 moʻopuna. soon to be 17. However, the opportunities arenʻt there at all for me because I am of mostly Irish Ethnicity and not Hawaiian. Though I am a Kumu ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi, I need a palapala to keep up with the DOE set of rules. This I maopopo, howeva, PEHEA am I sapposed to get that kokua to hele mua? My Kane is native Kanaka maoli not me. There is help for people like him not me.I am handicapped from getting asbestos poisoning and being declared dead and through Godʻs literal intervention and miracle, I am alive now because of prayer and Godʻs grace. Howeva, There is NO scholarshio or grants that go out to someone who has come back from death to life. Nor is handicapped for that matter! I have no hope. I might as well throw the towel in and settle in to an early retirement with social security instead of my dream of being a Kumu ʻOlelo Hawaiʻi in E.C.E. and SPED. I am only able to do as much as I am helped along with. like everyone else, I need encouragement, and guidance.Thus far Iʻve been facing the future with goggles that are covered with tears and complacency.I am almost Jealous of the opportunities that are there for the Hawaiian or non-white students. Iʻm not trying to take what isnʻt sapposed to be mine,but what I feel should at least be offered to me being that I have been a resident of Hawaii all my life and went to school here and graduated here on Kauaʻi. I am really happy for these students and what they are learning. Only one day I hope there will be room for one white kanaka too. ʻO wau nō me ka haʻahaʻa loʻa, Uʻilanimakamaekapolipumehana Kūhaulua

]]> By: Renee Creer /news/2014/07/25/grant-supports-non-traditional-native-hawaiian-students-at-maui-college/#comment-146816 Sun, 27 Jul 2014 17:43:50 +0000 http://www.hawaii.edu/news/?p=26372#comment-146816 Aloha,
This is great news…congratulations. I know this will allow a many who want to continue their journey and goals of attaining a higher education.
This is great news for the future of Hawaii and her citizens.
Mahalo,
Renee Creer

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