since 1988, Pacific Traditions Society

Supports initiatives by ancestral voyaging educators.

One of many such initiatives is the Taumako Traditional Voyaging Culture School of Holau Vaka Taumako Association (HVTA). HVTA aims are listed below:

Train youth to build vaka and navigate using ancient designs, methods & materials

Honor & protect Taumakan cultural heritage & intellectual property rights

Accommodate local and international students at Taumako Traditional Voyaging School

Revive and create more sustainability, resilience, bio-diversity and food security

Revive use of ancient seaways & re-establish peaceful voyaging partnerships and networks

Write, archive, video, and make films about ancient cultural knowledge of voyagers

Create and participate in cultural exchanges, presentations, and demonstrations

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2924 Pacific Traditions Society updates

Pacific Traditions Society (PTS) has posted few updates on vaka.org since 2020. Since 2012 many posts are available about the Vaka Taumako Project and other PTS projects on Facebook pages "vakataumakoproject" and "george.mimi.56" These posts include:

* a PTS Strategic Plan for December 2023 - December 2026

* urgent need for a sustainable transport/cargo/escort boat by Taumako Traditional Voyaging School of Holau Vaka Taumako Association...to fulfill government rules for teaching youth at sea on traditional vessels, and to serve the entire region of S.E. Solomons and Northern Vanuatu (where there is no passenger transport vessel).

* an article "Pacific Traditions Society 45 Years of Ancient Voyaging Culture Education"

* descriptions of the Gerda Henkel Stiftung grant for Holau Vaka Taumako Association and Pasana Group. In the first year each of these two voyaging schools has built a canoe house / student accommodation. In the second year each will build an ancestral vessel, and train youth to sail and navigate using ancestral methods.

* 54 other groups seek similar support to become sustainable schools that rebuild networks of oceanic learning that welcome both local and international students.