Nā Kama Kai Ocean Safety & Conservation Awareness Clinics serve our community statewide by positively impacting the lives of our youth in numerous capacities. Our statewide ocean clinics nurture a deep sense of love for the ocean among youth through swimming, canoe paddling, stand-up paddling, surfing, and voyaging. The experience ingrains in each of the participants an understanding of their kuleana to water safety and environmental awareness. Our clinics provide a positive, nurturing, and controlled environment enabling keiki to become confident in the ocean through a personally guided experience. Nā Kama Kai programs target all youth from 2 to 18 years of age in many different cultural settings. Currently, most of the programs occur on the Island of Oʻahu, and to a lesser extent on the other neighbor islands of Hawaiʻi. Also, ocean clinics have been held at Papeete, Tahiti, and Dana Point, CA, and have demonstrated that the programs provided by Nā Kama Kai can serve as a model for other coastal communities anywhere in the world, provided they incorporate place-based cultural values and traditional knowledge.

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