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Palama Settlement

Palama Settlement

For over a century, the Palama Settlement has provided a safe and nurturing environment where more than 900 children, adults and families a year engage in educational, athletic, recreational, and cultural programs and activities to enhance their well-being. The Palama Settlement swimming pool plays a vital role as the only free public pool offering swimming classes and other aquatic activities in this urban, low-income area. The 25-yard pool ranges from 4-8 feet in depth, has five lanes, and is well utilized. Years ago the wellknown swim coach Harry Mamizuka taught many of the neighborhood children how to swim, and many of them earned college scholarships for their swimming skills. Palama Settlement faced the possibility of having to close the pool to the public this year because it did not have a pool lift required to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Thanks to a Cooke Foundation grant which funded the purchase and installation of an approved portable pool lift, the pool remains open, busy and in compliance with the law.

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