AARON
KUMANA'S 5 RECOMMENDED PROJECTS
Update February
29th of September 2015
These
recommendations are mainly to be proposed to the Kennedy Family for the purpose
of fulfilling Kumana's promises for his community, but also to any people or
tourists who wish to contribute in other ways towards the recommended projects.
1. ST ANN'S KINDERGARTEN FOR
KONGU VILLAGE COMMUNITY (Name will change to "ERONI KUMANA memorial Kindergaten"
Total funds requested: SBD$130,000.
Kumana
School
St
Annâ Kindergartens is the only Kindergarten that serves 3 big nearby
villages. Last year 2009 registration was up to 50 children and this year, 2010,
there will likely be 120 children involved but due to the small poor building
only 50 are allowed this year. The project is to make a 2-story extension to
accommodate classroom facilities for the Kindergarten; serve as a library and
for administration use; to store playing kits for the children etc. The
Kindergarten suppose to be under the rehabilitation program of the Catholic Diocese
of Gizo. but due to lacking coordination body from the AK family it came to halt for a long time now (since then about 100++ children have not enter kindy till now). Funds were allocated for this project for a low cost (1 story)
building. Recommendation for the elevation to (2 Story) will be sent to the
Kennedy Family in America for consideration....
2. MUSEUM and ACCOMMODATION FOR
VISITING FRIENDS, with TRANSPORTATION PROJECT.
Total funds requested: SBD$500,000.
Before
the Ethnic Tension here in our country, Aaron and his grandson Aaron Malakana,
erected an eco-Resort, known as JF Kennedy Resort, ( Name will change to "Eroni Kumana Memorial & Cultural Museum") this is to accommodate
visitors from overseas. However, during the Tension, the project came to a stop
and during the 8.1 Earthquake/Tsunami the project collapsed leaving nothing to
continue. The project had been ignored [for five years] and many visitors
promised help for him but due to lack of communication, these promises were
ignored.
One of
the intentions of Aaron Kumana, mainly in remembrance on his friend the late
president Kennedy, was his interest in recalling back to the events that took
place during WWII, for the benefit of the upcoming generation. Aaron Kumana’s
main idea is to have a safe environment for his friends who may visit him and
so we may have a longtime friendship with the people of USA. The Project will
provide the following services: entertaining our guests – our culture and
tradition of our island and in turn we will learn about the USA; working
opportunities for family members; provide accommodations for local visitors;
have an opportunity to display and sell some of our custom items, like shell
money and other crafts; an income generating project. A site will be provided
for the location of the project. Community will be involved in
landscaping/clearance...
3. THE SHRINE
Total funds requested: $40,000. Solomon dollars
At one
time (late 1990) Aaron Kumana refrained from telling the story to some of the
guests from America, but he was converted by a local American Business man into
the importance of telling about the visitation. During 1998, Aaron Kumana and
his grandson erected a shrine for honoring his friend. They raised money by
selling crops at Gizo market and earned much money for the shrine. The shrine
is about 2-and-a-half meters high and is attached with shell money which is
tradition for honoring someone special in the community. Aaron Kumana has a
strong belief that after him there will be no one to tell the story of the
rescue of someone special in the world to his future generations and there will
be no meaning for them. For that purpose he erected the shrine. The shrine will
tell the story, for the people from our Island, of the rescue of JFK during
WWII. Since we have students from primary/secondary schools visiting the site,
it is a reminder and way of learning an important part of historical events
that took place here in our country. It will have its own
site where it may have enough space for dozens of people (guests, school
children, community etc). It is recommended to be bigger than the existing one.
We will contact someone expert to construct the shrine.... Funds for this
project will propose to the Kennedy family USA.
Since
the visitation of the National Geographic team from Washington USA, Mr. Aaron
Kumana has been expecting help from them. But, however, the monument has been
left untouched and he cannot afford to carry on the project. But he never gives
up. During the visitation of the tourist boat this Easter 2009 a similar item,
Bakia (shell money) was placed outside for Aaron Kumana's way of thanking the
Americans for their honor-ship towards him, but he cannot have that privilege.
Now he has a lot of dreams to fulfil for his community.
4. JOINERY PROJECT
Total funds requested: $30, 00. Solomon dollars
One of
Aaron Kumana’s ideas is for one of his sons to use his skill to produce
furniture for the above projects. Kumana's son, Mr Gram Dick was more than 20
years in Joinery. Returning home, he is committed to helping our community by
producing furniture in schools, clinics, churches etc; to help train youths how
to make furniture and to involve them; provide cheaper furniture than the
expensive furniture in our area; income generating project; many will learn
skills from the project; it will provide better furniture at better costs for
the community that families may afford. The resources needed are electric tools
- drills/plane/hand mill/Generator/hand saw/tape measures/chisel/grabs/square
sets...
5. COMMUNICATION is another project which is a
priority for the community.
Total of SBD $30,000.
Total cost for his 5 Recommendation is – SBD $730,000.00
(about US$100,000.00+ One hundred thousand +)
MANAGEMENT
These projects will be administrator
by one from family members. He will give advice so that the project will run smoothly,
aware family members not to misuse all project properties.
A committee will establish to work
closely with the administrator purposely to implement and to sustain the
project.
The administrator will be work
permanently but may terminate his posting if he is unfaithful in his posting,
and another may have the posting. Administrator will have skill in management
and may work as a sales manager to advertise the organization worldwide.
Chairperson will help assist the
administrator. We include gender, male and female because we believe we may
work closely together as family.
Committee members.
Office Bearers
Coordinator -Rellysdom
Aaron Malakana
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Treasurer -June Tama
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Secretary- Martin Matiuru
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Chairperson - Raymond Sore
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Committee members
John F Kennedy
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Graham Dick
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Mary Qioso
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Violet Kaurae
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