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Causes: Arts & Culture, Cultural & Ethnic Awareness
Mission: To promote, preserve, and perpetuate the okinawan culture; to perform community service; to support and encourage education; to conduct cultural programs, arts and crafts exhibits, demonstrations, and athlectic and social activites; to print, publish, and/or distribute okinawan cultural and historical information and books; and to provide and encourage member associations to sustain their membership and cultural activities unique to the individual associations.
Programs: Cultural and educational, sports - provides services to approximately 9,200 families of okinawan ancestry in hawaii through cultural activities, study, tours and community activities which promotes a positive group identity and contributes to the development of an okinawan ethnic identity.