Posted on: Tuesday, June 1, 2004

Grants

Advertiser Staff

Car-seat safety program aided

The Waimanalo Health Center's Keiki Car Safety Seat Program has been awarded a $5,000 grant from the Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii's Public Health Fund to continue working with families in need to help provide education and information on the proper use and installation of keiki car seats.

Over the past eight years, less than 8 percent of the car seats checked at the Waimanalo Health Center were installed incorrectly.

Maui arboretum planting funded

A $2,000 grant from the Fred Baldwin Memorial Foundation has provided funding to the Fleming Arboretum for "Project Plant-Phase I." Twenty-four native species will be planted. Eleven of these species are new to the arboretum, helping to complete the collection of species endemic to the Auwahi Forest on Maui's southern slope.

The A&B Foundation has given a $1,000 grant to help pay for arboretum maintenance and care for the new seedlings.

OHA gives to Life Foundation

The Office of Hawaiian Affairs has given a $24,000 grant to the Life Foundation to help its efforts to help Native Hawaiian people who are living with HIV and AIDS.

The program has helped nearly 300 Native Hawaiians, two-thirds of whom have died from the disease.

"The Life Foundation's Hawaiian HIV Program attempts to increase the chances for survival by removing impediments to drug adherence by ensuring that all clients have access to quality medical care and by reaffirming that no one in Hawai'i who is HIV positive has to confront the disease alone," said Life Foundation executive director Paul Groesbeck.

Verizon helps library program

Friends of Waimanalo Library received a grant of $10,000 from Verizon Hawai'i to continue its Saturday and Wednesday night children's programs. Waimanalo Public & School Library is the only public library in Hawai'i open six days a week, thanks to Verizon.