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Aloha
Käkou,
The `Awa
Development Council (ADC), a nonprofit 501(c)(3) public
charitable organization, and its volunteer committee plan,
coordinate and host the annual Hawai`i Pacific Islands Kava
Festival, a charitable, education, scientific and cultural
event. Our motto is I Maluhia ka Honua (So that the
world may be at peace).
Since time immemorial, Hawaiians and Pacific island peoples
have used kava in ceremony, meetings, therapy, and socially.
Today it continues to play an important role in our cultures.
Hawaiian kava, our `awa, is on the rise for its social,
cultural and economic benefit to Hawai`i. Increasingly it
serves Hawai`i well, and in terms of peaceable facilitating
qualities, it also appears it can serve effective roles in
conflict resolution, strife and fear, as experienced
worldwide.
The Kava Festival provides opportunity
for peoples to gather, talk story, and appreciate the local
entertainment, the cultural and educational booths, the
local food and kava beverage & products, and increase an
understanding of kava and its central role in Pacific island
cultures. Perhaps by extension and your involvement, this
understanding of kava can go much further, benefiting many lives.
The success
of the Festival depends on your help and participation.
We
very much welcome your contributions. We are volunteers,
and have no paid staff. And we need your
help:
(1) Donation
of services & goods such as entertainment, education,
scientific, cultural, and other services or items useful
for the festival are welcome. Booth space can be allocated
for you. Please contact the ADC below.
(2) Monetary
contributions are welcome, they will be used in support
of the festival, including renting of porta-potties, U.S.
nonprofit postage, ISP hosting to reach our supporters and the
public, tents, signage, etc. Checks of any amount payable to `Awa Development Council
may be sent to
`Awa Development
Council
PO Box 26344
Honolulu HI 96825-6344
Or donations
can also be made online here:
These donations
are fully tax deductible as allowed by our tax exempt status
under section 501(c)(3) for charitable organizations.
(3) E-mailing
will help tremendously. Please e-mail your friends and
contacts about the upcoming festival - citing http://kavafestival.org
We have very limited marketing funds and count on everybody
with an interest in kava and `awa (Hawaiian kava) to get the
word out. This is a grassroots festival and organization.
(4) Buy Festival
tee-shirts
(5) Become
a vendor and provide goods and services that are related
to Hawaiian and Pacific Islands cultures. Food, and, of
course, kava beverages are welcome.
(6) Volunteer
to help setup the day before, during, and after the Festival.
We also need volunteers to provide guidance, expertise, and
operations to the ADC on a continual, on-going basis. Please
contact the ADC below for more information.
As the Festival
is fast approaching your expedited kökua will be especially
appreciated. Your contributions are fully tax deductible as
allowed by section 501(c)(3) for public charities under the
tax code. Please support the Festival and contact us.
Return
to the Kava Festival main page.
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