About Us
Our Mission
Our mission is to educate and empower our haumāna. We support schools and 'ohana to ensure our students have exceptional learning opportunities. We connect students with Hawaiian culture and ‘āina to become leaders and advocates for a better world.
Our Values
Aloha
Aloha is not only a greeting, but an essence of being- love, peace, compassion, and a mutual understanding of respect. Aloha means living in harmony with the people and land around you with mercy, sympathy, grace, and kindness. The Hawaiian word alo is presence, front and face, and ha is breath, essence, and life.
Mālama
Mālama means caring, nurturing, and preserving. We seek mālama in every endeavor and interaction with our ʻohana and ʻāina. We share kuleana to care for our families and our larger community, including our environment. It is vital that we learn how to properly manage the resources and gifts it provides.
Lōkahi
Lōkahi means unity, oneness, harmony, and teamwork even when we don’t agree with one another or come from different cultures, races, and religions. Lō means to obtain, and kahi is the shortened version of ‘ekahi, which is the number one. Lōkahi reminds us that we need each other and can always work together.
Imua
Imua means to move forward or to move ahead toward a goal. The term imua was made famous by King Kamehemaha I, the ali’i (king) who unified the islands. To this day, the idea of imua still motivates and reminds us that we are stronger as one. The meaning of imua teaches us to be headstrong, and to go at it with all of our might!