Ke hoʻi aʻela ka ʻōpua i Awalau.
The rain clouds are returning to Awalau.
Said of a return to the source.
#1698, Mary Kawena Pukui, Olelo Noeau: Proverbs and sayings
(click on underlined titles to access website for that organization)
Education
- Ulu Aʻe Learning Center
- Delivers culture and place-based education for keiki and families of Honouliuli through half day and intersession student days, other cultural community programs and volunteer workdays.
- Mālama Learning Center
- Mālama Learning Center is a non-profit organization that brings art, science, conservation, and culture together to promote sustainable living throughout Hawai‘i. We are located in West O‘ahu, in the city of Kapolei, offering our services primarily to communities from Waipahu to Wai'anae.
- Camp Pālehua
- Camp Pālehua, (formerly Camp Timberline) is part of 1,600 acres of conservation and agricultural land owned by Gill 'Ewa Lands, LLC (GEL). GEL is committed to protecting the natural environment and cultural sites and restoring the native forest.
- Vision: Camp Pālehua is a puʻuhonua where a deepened understanding of the ʻāina awakens a desire for stewardship in our community and beyond.
- Hoakalei Cultural Foundation
- The Hoakalei Cultural Foundation was established to ensure good stewardship of the land and heritage of the ‘Ewa Plain. Its vision is to enable future generations to understand, value and respect the spirit, natural resources and heritage of the ‘Ewa Plain and most importantly, to use it to guide their lives. The Foundation provides oversight of work to make archaeological sites within the Hoakalei Resort accessible to the community, and is actively creating partnerships with area schools and other groups to pass on knowledge from one generation to the next.
- ʻUluʻUlu Archive
- ‘Ulu‘ulu: The Henry Ku‘ualoha Giugni Moving Image Archive of Hawai‘i aims to perpetuate and share the rich moving image heritage of Hawai‘i through the preservation of film and videotape related to the history and culture of Native Hawaiians and the people of Hawai‘i.
- ʻEwa ʻĀina Education Initiative
- The ‘Ewa ‘Aina Education Initiative is a professional development program that provides `āina-based educational opportunities for educators in the ʻEwa region. Educators eligible to participate include: D.O.E., Charter, Immersion, and Private School teachers. This project seeks to cultivate communities for teachers to build curriculum resources, engage in mentor coaching, practice place-based learning, and strengthen collaborative relationships with organizations that steward natural and cultural resources.
- Institute for Native Pacific Education and Culture
- INPEACE has provided educational programs to Native Hawaiian communities since 1994, nurturing the growth and development of keiki through ‘ohana-focused models and empowering community members to become educators and active leaders in their own communities because they understand, live, and are invested in the community’s future.
- ʻEwa Community
- The ‘Ewa Aina Inventory is the shared work of Kamehameha Schools Community Engagement & Resources - ‘Ewa Region & Nohopapa Hawaii –
to map culturally significant sites, to outline community stewardship efforts tied to these natural and cultural resources, and build an accessible collection of the moʻolelo (stories) that lives in these places.This work provides deeper foundations for connecting communities and ʻāina cultivators with the stories and land that guides their perspectives and approaches to education, well-being, and ʻāina stewardship.
- The ‘Ewa Aina Inventory is the shared work of Kamehameha Schools Community Engagement & Resources - ‘Ewa Region & Nohopapa Hawaii –
Mālama ʻĀina
- Kalaeloa Heritage and Legacy Foundation
- The Kalaeloa Heritage and Legacy Foundation (KHLF), a 501 (c) 3 Native Hawaiian organization formed by members of ‘Ahahui Siwila Hawaii O Kapolei (ASHOK) and dedicated residents of the Honouliuli ahupua‘a (land district) for the purpose of preserving and protecting Native Hawaiian Cultural and historical sites of Kalaeloa by creating a heritage park.
- Kalaeloa Wildlife Refuge
- In 2015, Mālama Learning Center was selected as one of 82 organizations in the world to receive a grant from the Disney Conservation Fund for a partnership project based at the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service’s refuge at Kalaeloa. We have been taking students for many years to the unique coastal and anchialine ecosystems there, home to rare species of ʻōpae ʻula (red shrimp). Thanks to this grant, we did even more by supporting community- and cultural-based conservation and research efforts that have grown at the refuge.
- Kuhiawaho
- Kuhiawaho is a grassroots organization located in the ahupuaʻa of Waiawa, and in the larger moku of ʻEwa. Re-established in 2012, Kuhiawaho began with Ron and Samantha's dream of raising their ʻohana on ʻāina with Hawaiian agricultural traditions and values taught by their kūpuna. Kuhiawaho has evolved into a puʻuhonua, a safe gathering place, for extended ʻohana and community to re-connect to ʻāina, to learn, and to perpetuate Native Hawaiian practices.
- Hui o Hoohonua - Mālama Puuloa
- Hui o Ho`ohonua (HOH) is a 501 (c)3 non-profit created by members of the `Ewa community. Our primary mission is to end the perpetuation of historical trauma to the land, water, and people in the `Ewa Moku. We are best described as a community stewardship networking organization.
- Hanakēhau Learning Farm
- Located in Waiawa Makai, on the shores Pu`uloa, we are working to restore `āina in an area heavily impacted by a long history of military misuse, illegal dumping, and pollution. We are reestablishing lo`i kalo, clearing land for mala, planting native and non-native food and other cultural use plants. We call our home site Hanakehau Learning Farm because because, in addition to plants, we seek to grow our lahui.
- Hoʻōla Hou Iā Kalauao - Kaʻōnohi Loʻi
- Hoola Hou Ia Kalauao provides conservation work days, cultural education, youth internship opportunities, habitat restoration, and community building. On a 2.5 acre farm (Kaonohi Farm) in the center of Ewa, a highly urbanized part of the island of Oahu, in the ili (traditional land division) of Kaonohi, in the ahupuaa (land division going from the mountain to the ocean) of Kalauao. Over the past five years, we have successfully returned these 2.5 acres to traditional agriculture, annually hosting hundreds of students and adults, as well as hosting youth and family internships, and monthly community work days.
- Paʻaiau Fishpond
- Since 2014, the ‘Aiea Community Association, the Ali‘i Pauahi Hawaiian Civic Club, and the United States Navy have worked together to begin the process of restoring this historic fishpond.
- Nā Kūpuna a me Nā Kākoʻo o Hālawa (NKNKHI, or NKNKH Inc.
- Nā Kūpuna a me Nā Kākoʻo o Hālawa (NKNKHI, or NKNKH Inc.) is a grassroots organization formed in 1997 with the mission to protect and advocate for Native cultural and sacred sites in North Hālawa Valley on Oʻahu and to facilitate cultural and community-based education programs tied to those sites. Its mission is to work with at-risk Hawaiian keiki.
- Our organization is the official steward for the large complex of wahi kūpuna (Hawaiian pre-contact sites) under the H-3 Freeway in Hālawa Valley. We are now in the final stages of completing a stewardship management plan (SMP) to meet the requirements for a lease from the Hawaiʻi Department of Transportation.
- NKNKHI provided community input in mitigation efforts by Federal and State agencies responsible for the preservation of Native Hawaiian cultural and religious sites endangered by the construction of the H-3 freeway.
- Nā Kūpuna a me Nā Kākoʻo o Hālawa (NKNKHI, or NKNKH Inc.) is a grassroots organization formed in 1997 with the mission to protect and advocate for Native cultural and sacred sites in North Hālawa Valley on Oʻahu and to facilitate cultural and community-based education programs tied to those sites. Its mission is to work with at-risk Hawaiian keiki.