Builds

Help us welcome Martha to the garden island! Martha is recently retired and has caught the travel bug. We are so glad she decided to utilize our Travel & Build program as a way to see the beauty of Kaua'i while helping out our community! Our volunteers are the BEST! Mahalo Martha...

[caption id="attachment_10078" align="alignnone" width="800"] High fives all around[/caption]   An amazing display of community occurred yesterday! The Boys & Girls Club of Hawaii, Lihue Clubhouse received a significant donation from Pure Storage to update their facilities. This financial donation was followed by a work day for employees of Pure Storage to give of their time in addition to the donation. On Thursday,...

For the second time this year students from Kapa'a High School arrived at the Kaua'i Habitat for Humanity jobsite in 'Ele'ele to work along side Habitat home buyers as they build their future homes. The purpose of these community projects is to provide relative learning opportunities for the students in Michelle Gibson's Social Studies class. With relative learning, the students...

  Our visiting volunteer group from Trinity Western University made the news in our own local newspaper; The Garden Island. Read the complete story "Spartans come to build" to find out what our volunteers think about working with Habitat for Humanity and the impact it has on them. The Garden Island - Spartans come to build ...

Despite the weather, a lot is getting done at our jobsite this week thanks to the wonderful volunteers from Trinity Western University! For several years team leaders, Allan and Sylvia Kotanen have visited our island from Canada with students from Trinity Western University to help us build homes and hope. This year they returned with 22 students and spent the...

On Saturday, January 26, 2019 more than 120 volunteers from the Hoopili Hou student leadership conference arrived to volunteer at our 'Ele'ele Iluna subdivision.  Read all about it in the article published by KHON News 2!  KHON 2 - Kauai Habitat for Humanity helped by 120 student volunteers ...

There is nothing better than hearing the sound of hammering in our baseyard! It's a sound that indicates new homebuyers are starting the process of building the walls that will one day form their new houses. This week, four of our newest homebuyers started that process. Ashley Conner, Josey Jacinto, Taira Kajiwara and Oeita Kauakahi showed up with family and...

Recently we had a group of students from Portland Community College spend their winter break from school volunteering with Kaua'i Habitat for Humanity. It was a great week as the students were excited and enthusiastic about learning about Kaua'i and our need for affordable housing. Once back at school the students shared their experience building with homebuyers in our 'Ele'ele...

A big MAHALO to the students and faculty of Portland Community College who spent the week leading up to Christmas building homes, community and hope with Kaua'i Habitat. Read the article about their generosity of spirit that was published in The Garden Island newspaper. The Garden Island - Helping for the holidays ...

Volunteers from Gather Federal Credit Union built homes, community and hope this past weekend as they spent the day working along side our homebuyers as they raised walls, installed insulation and painted house exteriors. The hard work they supplied truly supported their motto; "The more we gather, the more we grow". ...