Support

06 May HPM Building Supply Builds Homes During National Volunteer Week

Posted at 11:17h in Builds, Donation, Donor, Group Builds, News & Events, Support, Volunteer, Waimea Huakai Subdivision

On Saturday, April 27th, 2024, volunteers from HPM Building Supply gathered at the Kaua`i Habitat for Humanity jobsite in Waimea to celebrate National Volunteer Week. What a better way for the Partner Level Sponsor to recognize the week than by spending the day building homes, communities and hope with the nonprofit? HPM Building Supply has a long history of supporting affordable...

18 Jan HVB Teams Continue to Make Impact

Posted at 14:57h in Donation, Donor, Group Builds, Hawaii Village Build, Homebuyers, News & Events, ReStore, Support, Travel and Build, Volunteer, Waimea Huakai Subdivision

We continue to be impressed and inspired with the quality of folks that come to us as part of a Hawai'i Village Build (HVB) team. Hawai'i Village Builds are organized volunteer trips where individuals from various places, join together as a team that is coordinated by a Team Leader, to visit the Hawaiian Islands to support our mission of building...

15 Aug SPECIAL MAUI WILDFIRE UPDATE

Posted at 15:22h in Builds, Disaster recovery, Donation, News & Events, Support

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...

11 May Impactful Videos Highlight KHfH

Posted at 09:09h in AmeriCorps, Builds, Eleele Iluna Subdivision, Global Village, Group Builds, Hawaii Village Build, Homebuyers, News & Events, Support, Travel and Build, Volunteer, Waimea Huakai Subdivision

[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...

16 Mar Join Us as KHfH Celebrates 30 Years

Posted at 13:23h in News & Events, Support

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....

24 Feb Rotary Youth Exchange Students Give Back to Hawai’i

Posted at 12:04h in Homebuyers, News & Events, ReStore, Support, Volunteer

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...

13 Oct Rent-A-Center: Teamwork Makes the Dream Work

Posted at 14:34h in Builds, Donation, Donor, Eleele Iluna Subdivision, Group Builds, Homebuyers, News & Events, Support, Volunteer

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...

10 Oct KHfH `Ohana Grows by Four

Posted at 15:02h in AmeriCorps, News & Events, Support, Volunteer

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...

06 Sep Layton Construction Builds Aloha

Posted at 14:18h in Builds, Eleele Iluna Subdivision, Group Builds, Homebuyers, News & Events, Support, Volunteer

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...

30 Aug Keys Passed to Five New Habitat Homebuyers

Posted at 14:54h in AmeriCorps, Builds, Donor, Eleele Iluna Subdivision, Homebuyers, House Dedications, News & Events, Support, Volunteer

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...