A school displaced by the 2018 lava flow gets $500,000 toward a permanent home
Hoʻoulu Lāhui, a school displaced by the 2018 lava flow, received a $500,000 grant from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs toward a permanent campus. The grant was reported from Hilo.
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Hoʻoulu Lāhui, a school displaced by the 2018 lava flow on Hawaiʻi Island, received $500,000 from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs toward a permanent home, Maui Now reported. The grant supports the school's education work while that campus is still ahead of it.
Half a million dollars is the award. It is aimed at a lasting building. The report does not say the campus is finished or that classes have already moved in.
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In 2018, lava on Hawaiʻi Island covered land and forced a school called Hoʻoulu Lāhui to leave its place. The school has kept teaching without a permanent campus of its own. The Office of Hawaiian Affairs has now given the school $500,000 to put toward a lasting home. A grant is money given for a specific job. Permanent means a building the school can stay in, not a temporary room. Half a million dollars is a large gift and still one piece of what a campus costs. Maui Now reported the grant. The news is the money toward a home, not a ribbon-cutting on a finished school.
- What does a school need in a building besides classrooms?
- Why is a permanent home different from borrowing a room?
- How can a community keep teaching when its building is gone?
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