Lanakila Learning Center
Hilo based Lomi Stick Project Funds School Bus
The Ola Pono Collection by Hawaiian Body Products and Kumu Dane Silva on Hawaii island, is a collection of healing and wellness products and tools designed to promote a healthy lifestyle.
They have successfully packaged traditional Hawaiian healing modalities and philosophy in accessable contemporary packaging to bridge time and space thus providing alternative venues for self and family care.
In order to create the hand carved lomi sticks for this collection Hawaiian Body Products partnered up with Hilo's Lanakila Learning Center in a long term project that provides a cultural learning experience for the Lanakila teens, and hand carved lomi sticks for the wellness collection.
The funds generated from the production of the lomi sticks have literally been a lifesaver for The Lanakila Learning Center, without which they had no funding for their school bus.
This cultural project has provided not only a valuable learning venue and cultural connection for the Lanakila teens but has given them the necessary funds to purchase gas for their school vehicles.
This in turn has enabled the students to learn about the role of the rainforest in Wao Kele O Puna from a botanist...and the impact of the watershed on marine species from a marine biologist in Kapoho...and to develop an aquaponic project in Kalalau...and all of the other field trips that they can now participate in thanks to The Ola Pono Collaboration between Hawaiian Body Products and Big Island's Kumu Lomi Dane Silva.
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