Your support helps Ku'ialuaopuna carry out its programs, including:

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• Creating traditional learning spaces for youth of Puna through hands-on learning classes to develop connections to self, family, community, ‘āina (land or environment), and indigenous cultural practices.

• Building a repository of traditional knowledge for the people of Hawai‘i and of Polynesia by conducting necessary research, documenting interviews, translating dialogue and film,  and developing a secure online space for members to access.

• Alleviating associated travel expenses for exchanges of traditional practices and knowledge with families across the Pacific ocean.

• Future development of a united Pacific organization where indigenous people of Polynesia build and sustain relationships and convene for bi-annual gatherings to exchange indigenous culture, practices, and knowledge.

• Maintaining the continuation of the Lua, an indigenous Hawaiian fighting art, through our classes, lectures and workshops.

• Researching and documenting traditional practices and other indigenous fighting arts.

• Mentoring ʻōpio (young people) in our youth programs.

• Restoring lands with native plants and trees.

• Setting up the infrastructure to house and feed various visiting people from around the pacific and globe. 

 

We appreciate monetary donations, as well as in-kind donations of all kinds:

land, cars, trucks, audiovisual equipment, and more. 

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Recurring Donations

Become a monthly donor and help us to continue our research and assistance

to indigenous people in the continuation of their cultural traditions.

Your monthly donation helps us to build a sustainable stream of revenue throughout the year

so we can continue to empower our community of Puna, Hawai'i and beyond.
 

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Ku‘ialuaopuna offers years of expertise, an inspired curriculum, and a welcoming community where traditional knowledge is at the core of sustaining indigenous identity, culture, language, and art.

 

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