Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 38, Number 1, 1 January 2021 — Kawailoa Pursues Bill to Engage in Eeonomie Enterprise [ARTICLE]

Kawailoa Pursues Bill to Engage in Eeonomie Enterprise

HYCF Administrator Mark Patterson and the Office of Youth Services are promoting a 2021 bill that would allow Kawailoa to engage in eeonomie enterprise, selling its high-quality, locally and sustainably produced beef to the loeal market and reinvest profits in its business model. This will enable youth to learn business management and gain practical and marketable job skills, while receiving professional mentorship, supportive services, and a living wage. It will also provide a way for incarcerated youth to pay off any fines or restitution. Onee completely self-sustaining, the ranch ean provide youth with the ability to nourish their community while they enrich and transform their own lives. Because the ranch is a government program, the operation relies on state support, and the training and eeonomie opportunities it ean offer the youth of Kawailoa are limited. Currently, participating youth receive vocational training and a small ineome. The high-quality, grass-fed beef they produce feeds the Kawailoa eommunity and the surplus is donated to the surrounding community in need, especially since C0VID-19. m* Watch a video 8 get updates on the bill at: https://kamakakoi.com/kawailoa