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Causes: Community & Neighborhood Development, Economic Development
Mission: To provide charitable, educational, literary and scientific services for families and communities using timeless native Hawaiian values and traditions.
Results: Since our incorporation in 1997, we have helped over 100,000 people in over 65 communities.
Target demographics: Hawaiian families and communities overcome difficult challenges in ways that would make them, in turn, teachers and helpers of others in need.
Geographic areas served: Hawai'i
Programs: Tutu and Me: Early childhood education and caregiver support through a traveling preschool program serving the Hawaiian and part-Hawaiian community. Focused on meeting the developmental needs of young children; and supporting grandparents, parents, and other primary caregivers.
Ka Paʻalana: Traveling preschool and homeless family education program serves houseless families on the Leeward coast of Oʻahu. Assists families by delivering or providing access to essential services, such as parent-child participatory preschool, foodbank, toiletry, and dental supplies distribution, and more.
Hui Hoʻomalu: statewide initiative addressing the identification, recruitment, screening, training and ongoing support and retention of foster/resource families for Hawaiian children and families that are in the care of the State of Hawaiʻi Department of Human Services.