{"id":390,"date":"2016-07-24T11:26:22","date_gmt":"2016-07-24T21:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olohana.org\/?page_id=390"},"modified":"2025-09-18T10:58:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T20:58:31","slug":"youth-education-training","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/olohana.org\/index.php\/youth-education-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth Education & Training"},"content":{"rendered":"

Among the responsibilities we have as a community, as parents and grandparents, and at Olohana, is to educate our youth. The future of the planet and its inhabitants rests on their knowledge and understanding of environmental and communal stewardship, and on the state of the world when they receive it into their care.<\/p>\n

With our partners, Olohana integrates youth education and training<\/strong> into our projects around food, energy, water, and knowledge systems, science and technology, disaster preparedness, and climate-change mitigation.<\/p>\n

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ReCreATES VISIONS LEARNING CAMPUS\u2014<\/b>Converging generational, place-based wisdom, and modern research<\/strong><\/a><\/h4>\n

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Learning from past practices of convergence science, our community partners address a list of shared goals by converging generational, place-based wisdom, and modern research to create\u00a0Rec<\/b>reating\u00a0C<\/b>limate\u00a0Re<\/b>silience\u00a0A<\/b>daptation: T<\/b>raditional\u00a0E<\/b>cological\u00a0S<\/b>tewardship\u00a0(ReCreATES) Visions Learning Campus (RVLC). <\/b>The Learning Campus\u00a0is focused on terrestrial and agricultural research and education. Led by Olohana\u2019s executive director, Sarah Purgus as Terrestrial Environmental Director with Alex Meffert as Operations Director, this Learning Campus incorporates scientific analyses with traditional agroforestry and silvopasture techniques to support optimum soil health and nutrient dense crops, and opportunities for student engagement.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>NATURAL MOVEMENT SELF DEFENSE<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n

Olohana Foundation together with the Honoka\u2019a High & Intermediate School and Kumu Ramsay Taum propose a project consisting of a series of\u00a0workshops to teach Natural Movement Self Defense (NMSD)<\/strong>\u00a0as developed by Kumu Ramsay Taum, founder of the Life Enhancement Institute of the Pacific and long-time Olohana affiliate.NMSD is a method of self-protection based on movements and gestures you already know and use in daily life at home, work, and school that can be used to break contact and protect oneself\u00a0or others in the case of an assault. NMSD integrates the values, principles and philosophies of Lua and Aloha.<\/p>\n

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Inter-generational Transfer of Knowledge (ITK\u2122)<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Permeating all of Olohana programs is the process we call Inter-generational Transfer of Knowledge (ITK). Olohana works with communities to help them pass on knowledge between the generations using the ITK process. Olohana also works through the\u00a0PRiMO Indigenous Knowledge and Environment Hui<\/strong>\u00a0to help bring an indigenous voice to efforts such as the\u00a0National Climate Assessment<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Food Systems \/ Agroforestry<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n