In an effort to get our keiki back to school safely, the community pitched in to build benches at Moanalua Elementary. The seating will allow keiki to remain socially distanced at lunch times. Mahalo to the Moanalua Lions Club for all your hard work!
Below with Dr. Scott Miscovich, Covid testing director for the Olympics doing our part to fight the pandemic. All of our residents are fully vaccinated and happy to play a part for the greater good.
Helping restore the Waikalua Loko I’a Fishpond. For two decades, an intensive effort by students, community groups, public and private partners, and individual members of the greater community, breathed new life back into the 400 year old fishpond. As each stone was put back on the wall and each native plant took root, a foundation was laid for a healthier and …
Habilitat’s long standing friendship with The Hawaii Foodbank always makes for a fun day. Curbside collecting or hands on distribution, our residents are giving back. Here’s some of our wahine distributing food to some folks in need out in Waimanalo.
Helping distribute some much needed items out in Waialua at the Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints.
Habili-blog 1/2/19 Farewell blog “The Comeback Kid” by Jared Mayes. It’s incredible how much of my recent lifestyle change can be attributed to one single event. A nap. An unauthorized nap at a simulated drug rehabilitation program. Although seemingly not a very dramatic event, this nap ultimately led to the discovery of a web of lies including but not …
Dropping off some clothing to our friends out on the west side. Puʻuhonua O Waiʻanae is a village of 250 people living unhoused on the leeward side of Oʻahu. A majority of residents are Native Hawaiians. It is an inspiring community first approach to houselessness that: IS SELF-ORGANIZED AT NEARLY ZERO COST TO TAXPAYERS GETS PEOPLE THE HELP THEY NEED—MEDICAL …
This years capital improvements focused on Habilitat’s bathrooms. As of September 2018 we have successfully completed the renovation of our Re-entry and staff bathrooms and are currently hard at work renovation the treatment bath house. Next on the list are the female dorms and recreation room.
Habili-blog 8/3/18 “Miracle Grow” by Jared Mayes Passion is a thing you can not teach. It’s something engrained into an individual and can often times be untapped. I used to wonder how people had such a clear picture of what they like to do and what they were good at. The only thing I knew I was good at was …
