Grants
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Easter Seals camp gets aid
A $200,000 grant from The Harry & Jeanette Weinberg Foundation will help support Easter Seals Hawaii Camps for youth ages 7 to 20 with disabilities or special needs.
Easter Seals Hawaii president and chief executive officer John Howell said: "The Harry & Jeanette Weinberg Foundation recognizes the importance of camp for children with special needs. Kids just want to be kids, and a camp experience should be available to every child. For our kids at Easter Seals, we know that camp will help each one reach his or her personal level of independence."
Easter Seals Camps offer fun outdoor experiences and camaraderie and help build self-confidence. Skills to strengthen independence are also emphasized. Camp is a component of the Youth Services program at Easter Seals Hawai'i. In addition to camp, Youth Services provides a supervised program during nonschool hours for school-age youths with special needs. This program is therapeutically oriented with emphasis on the development of social, recreational and self-help skills.
Bank helps North Shore efforts
Parents and Children Together Economic Development Center has received a $25,000 grant from American Savings Bank to promote economic development on the North Shore.
The grant will help EDC support individuals involved in the "Saving for Start-Ups" initiative to start at least five new businesses and open at least five Individual Development Accounts. EDC has been helping economic development efforts on the North Shore since 1996.
Individual Development Accounts are special matched savings accounts that reward monthly savings of low-income families who are saving toward productive assets such as post-secondary education, first-home ownership or business capitalization.
Waikiki clinic receives grants
Waikiki Health Center has received a grant of $6,616 from the Susan G. Komen Foundation to screen and educate women about breast health at outreach clinics in Hale'iwa, Kahalu'u and Punalu'u.
Hawai'i Legal Women's Foundation also made a gift of $5,000 to provide school physicals, immunizations and other healthcare to needy and homeless children served by the center.
OHA assists family center
The Office of Hawaiian Affairs has awarded Malama Na Makua A Keiki Inc. (dba Malama Family Recovery Center) a $30,000 grant. Malama Family Recovery Center is a private, nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide a continuum of gender-specific substance abuse treatment, life skill enhancement, educational and therapeutic living services for eligible women and their families.
The grant will help Malama Recovery Center integrate traditional Hawaiian cultural values and activities into its treatment curriculum. Among these traditions is the practice of ho'oponopono, the Hawaiian way of making things right through communication and forgiveness.
