{"id":733,"date":"2025-07-15T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manarapanuifoundation.org\/?p=733"},"modified":"2026-05-24T21:28:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T21:28:05","slug":"hotu-matua-grant-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manarapanuifoundation.org\/es_ES\/hotu-matua-grant-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 Grant Partnership \u2014 to Corporacion de Resguardo Cultural Kahu Kahu ‘o Hera"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Erity Teave Hey | President, Mana Rapa Nui Foundation \u00b7 Vice President, Parlamento Rapa Nui | July 2025<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In July 2025, the Mana Rapa Nui Foundation provided a grant to the Corporacion de Resguardo Cultural Kahu Kahu ‘o Hera \u2014 supporting youth programs that pass Rapa Nui cultural values to the next generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About the Corporacion de Resguardo Cultural Kahu Kahu ‘o Hera<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Corporacion de Resguardo Cultural Kahu Kahu ‘o Hera is a Rapa Nui community organization dedicated to safeguarding the island’s cultural heritage. Named for Hotu Matu\u02bba \u2014 the founding Ariki who, according to Rapa Nui oral tradition, led the first Polynesian settlers to the island \u2014 the Corporaci\u00f3n carries forward that ancestral responsibility: to protect what was brought, what was made, and what must be passed on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What the Grant Funded<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Mana Rapa Nui Foundation’s grant supported the Corporaci\u00f3n’s youth programs dedicated to preserving Rapa Nui cultural values \u2014 ensuring that the island’s traditions, language, and identity are carried forward by its young people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why This Partnership Matters<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The survival of Rapa Nui culture does not depend on archives or monuments alone. It depends on children \u2014 on whether the next generation grows up knowing the language, the genealogies, the ceremonies, and the values that make them Rapa Nui. On the most isolated inhabited island on Earth, that transmission is fragile, and it is the daily work of community organizations like the Corporacion de Resguardo Cultural Kahu Kahu ‘o Hera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By investing in youth programs, the Mana Rapa Nui Foundation invests in the one form of preservation that cannot be outsourced or imported: a generation of young Rapa Nui who carry their culture forward because they were taught to live it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“The survival of Rapa Nui culture does not depend on archives or monuments alone. It depends on children.”<\/p>\nFundaci\u00f3n Mana Rapa Nui<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Mana Rapa Nui Foundation \u00b7 501(c)(3) Nonprofit \u00b7 EIN: 33-4549354 \u00b7 manarapanuifoundation.org \u00b7 eteaveh@manarapanuifoundation.org<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Erity Teave Hey | President, Mana Rapa Nui Foundation \u00b7 Vice President, Parlamento Rapa Nui | In July 2025, the Mana Rapa Nui Foundation provided a US$18,000 grant to the Corporaci\u00f3n Resguardo Cultural Hotu Matua \u2014 supporting youth programs that preserve Rapa Nui cultural values.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"saved_in_kubio":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-grant-partnerships"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manarapanuifoundation.org\/es_ES\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manarapanuifoundation.org\/es_ES\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manarapanuifoundation.org\/es_ES\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manarapanuifoundation.org\/es_ES\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manarapanuifoundation.org\/es_ES\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/manarapanuifoundation.org\/es_ES\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":835,"href":"https:\/\/manarapanuifoundation.org\/es_ES\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions\/835"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manarapanuifoundation.org\/es_ES\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manarapanuifoundation.org\/es_ES\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manarapanuifoundation.org\/es_ES\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manarapanuifoundation.org\/es_ES\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}