Akakū: Maui Community Television receives funding support from the Atherton Family Foundation to train student interns to make Public Service Announcements with the theme “Arrive Alive” aimed at improving the driving habits of teenagers and their families.

KAHULUI, HI, March 10th  – Maui’s Community TV Station wants our young drivers to arrive alive.

Akakū: Maui Community Television, has been awarded $5,000.00 from the Atherton Family Foundation to support its “Arrive Alive” Public Service Announcement Video Training Program. The “Arrive Alive” Project will create six PSAs about safe driving habits.     Akakū will train student interns to create the stories, produce the media, provide the talent for the productions and edit the footage.  The PSAs will focus on the driving habits of teens and their parents in an effort to prevent the untimely deaths of Maui’s young drivers.
The “Arrive Alive” Project will honor fallen staff member, Na’ilima Kana, who was killed suddenly along with his brother and cousin in a vehicular accident in October of 2009.  “Na’i was an important part of our Akakū Ohana and an accomplished editor at just twenty years old.  He has been sorely missed and we hope that these PSAs reach Maui Nui’s younger drivers to prevent a tragedy like this from ever happening again” states Linda Puppolo, Akaku Administrative Services Director.

We thank the Atherton Family Foundation for helping make this project possible.

For more information, call 808-871-5554, or visit Akakū: Maui Community Television at 333 Dairy Road, Suite 104, Kahului.

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