Mahalo to Makana, Lono, Lopaka, Millicent and Uana - Fund Raising concert in Waimea 2007. Photo by Evan Tector
Hawaii Health Guide is pleased to announce the 2007 Hawaii Health Guide Health & Wellness Scholarship award recipients:
The Hawaii Health Guide Health & Wellness Education Scholarship award fund is available to all Hawaii students regardless of age. High school students and people pursuing a mid life change of career are equally welcome to apply. Funds are directly applicable to tuition costs at an established school or CEU accredited workshop, or cultural practice through the lineage of a recognized kumu/apprentice healing tradition.
The following three students were selected from a wide pool of applicants in 2007. Congatulations to:
Joy BlaisKauai/Big Island: The Traditional Chinese Medical College of Hawaii- special interest in chronic pain. Joy has co-hosted Health Talk Radio on KKCR, and has 6 years experience managing a holistic veterinary hospital on Kauai.
Iris Nagamine Oahu: UH Manoa Medical School with a focus on Geriatrics. Iris is fluent in Japanese, and was also the recipient of a Regents Scholarship.
Erin Matsuda Oahu: UH-Manoa, Masters of Science - Pediatric Nurse Practitioner. Experience with Emergency Nursing. Erin enjoys the "nursing perspective of treating a person as a whole"
We sincerely wish you success in your chosen fields of study and look forward to bright future careers in Health & Wellness in Hawaii.
Decisions were based on criteria agreed upon by the judging committee:
1. Demonstrated commitment to purpose/dedication
2. Diversification
3. Financial Need
4. Future contributions to the collective
5. Life experience/maturity
6. Academic achievement
7. Community Service
"These three selected recipients best represented the overall criteria for this award.
We also realize that all the candidates showed such worth and we only wish that we could support them all. I only wish I could hire all the applicants and put together an amazing healing center!" Francesco Garipoli, Mentor Ohana program and Kahuna Valley Healing Center, Kauai and member of 2006 HHG Health & Wellness Scholarship Selection Committee.
From all of us at Hawaii Health Guide and the Hawaii Healing Arts community,
we wish you the best of luck in successful completion of your Health & Wellness career studies, and look forwrad to your future contributions to a healthy Hawaii!
2006 scholarship award recipients:
Patricia Wehman, Oahu: UH-Manoa Public and Community Health focus AIDS education and outreach.
Brandi Ballard Corpuz, Maui: MCC-Nursing
Deborah Lee Rabarra (Shapiro) Maui: MCC- Nursing
On behalf of the five member scholarship selection committee, we thank all those who participated in this year’s HHG Health and Wellness Education Scholarship Fund.
Special thanks this year to John Renna L.Ac, Francine Dudoit, Dr. Lisa Chun, Elizabeth Revely, Katherine Fisher and Michael Saiz, Miri Gregor and Char Revelo to making the 2007 Scholarship possible.
p>Mahalo to the following businesses and organizations for your support: Hawaii Health Guide, Inspiration Journal, Eight Ways Traditonal Chinese Medicine, Patagonia, Cholo's, the Kauai Wellness Association, and the many talented lei makers whose contest contributions on Kauai, Oahu, the Big Island and Maui were included in silent auctions for fund raising.
A very special mahalo to Makana for contributing his musical gifts at a benefit Concert at Hawaii Healing Garden Festival at Waimea Valley Audubon Center.
Amount of annual cholarship fund distrubtion is determined by fund raising results. Total funds for 2007 = $1,000.
Scholarship donations for 2008 fund are now being accepted and are tax deductible. Please contact Hawaii Health Guide for more information on how to support the next generation of healers in Hawaii, or see related links:
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