Blue Zones Project – West Hawaiʻi team receives Kona-Kohala Chamber of Commerce (KKCC) Community Education Award

Congratulations to our Blue Zones Project – West Hawaiʻi team for receiving the Kona-Kohala Chamber of Commerce (KKCC) Community Education Award at their 2019 Pualu Awards Luncheon.

Pualu Award recipients – Lee-Ann Heely, Kirstin Kahaloa and Carol Ignacio representing Blue Zones Project - West Hawaiʻi (photo credit: Kona-Kohala Chamber of Commerce)

“The Community Education Award honors an individual or organization that promotes and supports education and enrichment programs that develop personal skills and lifelong learning. Launched in West Hawaiʻi in 2017, the first winner, the Blue Zones Project, is a community-wide initiative that takes a systematic approach on comprehensively changing a community’s environment so that individuals adopt healthy lifestyle behaviors to live longer, better lives. In a letter of recommendation from State Sen. Dru Kanuha, he pointed out that ‘the project exemplifies community education and outreach as evidenced by the breadth of people and organizations impacted.’” Read the Big Island Now article here. 

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