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On August 8, 2023, devastating wildfires hit three cities on the island of Maui – Kula, Kihei, and Lahaina. Among the three fires, the most devastating damage occurred in Historic Lahaina resulting in families, businesses, and communities losing everything overnight. The disaster left thousands of residents displaced, including our sister affiliate’s (Habitat for Humanity Maui) partner families. The Lahaina wildfires wiped away...

[caption id="attachment_12522" align="alignleft" width="300"] Ross Anthony, M.Ed.[/caption] You always hear us talking about how wonderful our volunteers are. When you hear this, you probably picture people in hard hats swinging hammers. Well, there are plenty of ways to make an impact at Kaua'i Habitat without ever picking up a hammer. One example is videographer, editor and volunteer Ross Anthony, M.Ed., who visited...

  It’s our 30th year of building homes and hope! Please celebrate with us at our 30th Anniversary Dinner on November 4th, 2023, at the Royal Sonesta. Individual tickets (open seating), reserved tables for 10, sponsorship packages, and ad space in our event program are available for purchase. For more information click here, or to purchase tickets or sponsorship click here....

As many of you know the Rotary Club does good things for people all around the globe. One program the club offers is the Rotary Youth Exchange, which is a volunteer driven program that gives high school students the opportunity to study abroad for an entire year. Recently Hawai'i (Rotary District 5000) had four students that were studying and experiencing...

When you think of a Habitat Team Build, the first thing that comes to mind is building homes. But often more than that is produced while spending the day working side by side serving others. I couldn't help thinking that on Wednesday, October 12, 2022, when twelve employees from Rent-A-Center arrived on the 'Ele'ele Iluna jobsite. The team members all work...

We've been very fortunate over the years to have service members from AmeriCorps building homes, communities and hope with us. For the past several years we've hosted two service members a year, each serving terms of 10 1/2 months. Well this year the Kaua'i Habitat 'Ohana grew by four, as the number of AmeriCorps members volunteering with us doubled. AmeriCorps mission...

In an amazing display of the aloha spirit, a build team from Layton Construction arrived at our 'Ele'ele Iluna jobsite to work alongside our homebuyers as they did construction on their new homes. This isn't the first time the nationally ranked construction company has done something like this. In fact the Kaua'i branch of the company, which has offices throughout...

It was a beautiful day on Friday, August 26th, 2022 as Kaua‘i Habitat for Humanity passed the keys to five new affordable homes on Kaua‘i. You could see trucks packed with belongings parked nearby as families received their keys and prepared to move into their new homes.  The deserving homebuyers who received their keys were Dexter Corpuz, Keoki Pantorilla, Bradley...

Fun was had by all at the 2022 Visitor Industry Charity Walk. It was nice to see the return of the annual event after being cancelled the past two years due to the pandemic. Kaua'i Habitat was happy to participate and raise funds for the event that will share it's proceeds with the many nonprofits on island that work endlessly...

Kaua'i Habitat for Humanity is excited to introduce Nicole Pacanas as our new Volunteer Program Manager. Nicole comes to the position with the unique advantage of experiencing the nonprofits volunteer program from every aspect. She and her family were in the first group of homebuyers in the second phase of the 'Ele'ele Iluna subdivision. So she was initially introduced to...