{"id":152142,"date":"2021-11-23T10:24:24","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T20:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=152142"},"modified":"2021-11-23T11:10:49","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T21:10:49","slug":"auction-for-struggling-hawaiinuiakea-haumana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2021\/11\/23\/auction-for-struggling-hawaiinuiakea-haumana\/","title":{"rendered":"One-of-a-kind auction planned for struggling Hawai\u02bbinui\u0101kea haum\u0101na"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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Lauhala (pandanus) hats woven by Â鶹´«Ã½nuākea<\/span> faculty are featured in the auction<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This fall, more than 260 undergraduate and graduate haum\u0101na (students) at the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa Â鶹´«Ã½nuākea<\/span> School of Hawaiian Knowledge<\/a> are working towards degrees and a majority rely on some form of financial aid or scholarships. The COVID-19 pandemic has only exacerbated the need for many to seek more funding to keep up with tuition, housing and more. For more than a decade, Â鶹´«Ã½nuākea<\/span> has maintained a student emergency aid fund, however the pandemic has contributed to its depletion.<\/p>\n

“Statistically, college students living away from home with few safety nets as they pursue their education, are piling up personal debt and wondering how much longer they can continue to enroll,” said Â鶹´«Ã½nuākea<\/span> Dean Jon Kamakawiwoʻole<\/span> Osorio<\/strong>. “We are at the mid-term of the fourth semester since Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> was seized by the COVID-19 pandemic. We have all seen our public and private schools grapple with rules, logistics, unfamiliar technologies, worried parents and teachers, and a shortage of resources to try and meet our responsibilities to educate our people. While it has not been easy for anyone, I am especially concerned with how our haum\u0101na have fared.”<\/p>\n

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Osorio ʻohana<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

To help raise funds for haum\u0101na in need, Â鶹´«Ã½nuākea<\/span> will launch its very first online auction. Bidding for the virtual silent auction, Ka ea o n\u0101 iʻa<\/span> he wai<\/a>, opens on November 24 at 8 a.m. until December 1, 11:59 p.m. HST. Some of the featured items include one-of-a-kind experiences, such as a cultural practitioner led p\u0101hoa aʻu<\/span> (marlin dagger) workshop, mahiʻai<\/span> kalo (taro farmer) starter kit filled with 10 kalo varieties, and a one-hour music performance by Osorio and ʻohana.<\/p>\n

A preview of some of the items up for auction will continue to be posted ahead of the event.<\/p>\n

“We need your support,” exclaimed Malia Nobrega<\/strong>, Director of Strategic Partnerships at Â鶹´«Ã½nuākea<\/span>. “This is an exciting and fun way to help our students, and at the same time have a chance to win creative, fun and unique items and experiences from community practitioners and friends!”<\/p>\n

The department hopes to raise $20,000 for its haum\u0101na emergency fund. Through the years, deans have organized annual fundraisers and maintained a fund to help students who faced unanticipated situations that could impact their education, housing, medical care and other aspects of their welfare.<\/p>\n

The auction\u2019s name, Ka ea o n\u0101 iʻa<\/span> he wai (the ea of fish is water), traces back to an infamous speech given in M\u0101noa in 1871 to commemorate L\u0101 Hoʻihoʻi<\/span> Ea (Sovereignty Restoration Day). In it, speaker David Kahalemaile stresses ea (source of life) as a vital factor to the survival of k\u0101naka ʻ\u014diwi (Native Hawaiians).<\/p>\n

Donations to the student aid fund can be made on the UH<\/abbr> Foundation website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This event is an example of UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa\u2019s goal of Enhancing Student Success<\/a> (PDF<\/abbr><\/span>), Becoming a Native Hawaiian Place of Learning<\/a> (PDF<\/abbr><\/span>), two of four goals identified in the 2015–25 Â鶹´«Ã½<\/a> (PDF<\/abbr><\/span>), updated in December 2020. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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