November 2023–April 2026
A record of showing up.
What began as weekly outreach on Holomua Road grew through trust: into cleanups, advocacy, Maui-wide care, emergency response, and pathways toward meaningful work.
Follow the journey
01The living record
What began as weekly outreach became a wider movement of care.
Each step grew from relationships already in place. The dates matter, but the deeper story is consistency: return, listen, organize, and follow through.
This is a living record of selected milestones, not a complete account of every meal, visit, ride, cleanup, or conversation.
Chapter 01
2023
A commitment begins
A weekly presence on Holomua Road creates the foundation for everything that follows.
Weekly outreach begins on Holomua Road
Holomua Outreach begins bringing hot meals, water, hygiene supplies, and steady care directly to community. Returning each week creates trust, strengthens pilina, and keeps support grounded in relationship.
Chapter 02
2024
Trust becomes action
Direct care grows into practical navigation, community cleanups, and public advocacy.
Care and navigation expand
Partnerships with Maui Rapid Response and Maui Rescue Mission help bring showers, laundry, donation hubs, and other essentials closer to the people who need them. The hui also helps community members pursue identification, SNAP benefits, and medical coverage.
First Holomua Road community cleanup
Neighbors and volunteers gather to remove dumped household items, tires, appliances, bagged waste, and roadside debris—caring for the ʻāina together by hand.
Community opposition to Bill 95
Holomua Outreach organizes, listens, and shows up during Maui County Council deliberations on Bill 95 and the Pāʻia Fire Mitigation Plan, carrying a clear position against sweeps.
The community returns for a second cleanup
The work continues along Holomua Road as volunteers walk the area, collect refuse, remove larger discarded items, and make space for one another.
A third community cleanup
A growing circle of volunteers gathers for another day of coordinated roadside care, reinforcing cleanup as a shared and recurring community practice.
Access work deepens
The hui continues helping people move through barriers to photo identification, voter registration, benefits, and other documents that can open pathways to services and stability.
Chapter 03
2025
The circle widens
Holomua carries its relationship-first practice into more places, partnerships, and public decisions across Maui.
Culture and local partnership remain part of the work
Community gatherings, cultural practice, and collaboration with local organizations continue alongside weekly outreach and navigation.
Advocacy continues
Holomua brings community perspective into Bill 9 testimony and responds when sweep notifications threaten to displace houseless residents from the places where they have found stability.
Showing up around displacement
The hui activates around sweep activity at ʻĀmala Road and Ukumehame, offering practical care and remaining present as community members face another forced move.
Community events carry care across Maui
Holomua supports Holoholo I Ka Wai, joins a Maui Lani cleanup, and feeds houseless communities during Lā Kūʻokoʻa—connecting culture, nourishment, and service.
A Maui-wide reach
What began on one road now carries care into Central, West, Upcountry, and North Shore communities while staying rooted in the relationships that started the work.
Chapter 04
2026
Programs take structure
Environmental care, food systems, emergency response, and workforce pathways become an increasingly connected body of work.
Larger cleanup efforts continue
Community cleanup work expands at Kapuʻali and returns to Holomua Road, pairing environmental restoration with opportunities to build skills, routine, and shared purpose.
Workforce development cohorts launch
Environmental and Food Systems Workforce Development Cohorts create structured pathways for people to learn through real community work and move toward longer-term opportunity.
Emergency shelter support
During a period of urgent need, Holomua helps activate shelter and practical support for unhoused and vulnerable community members.
Disaster recovery kōkua on Molokaʻi
The hui carries supplies and hands-on support beyond Maui, responding to community needs on Molokaʻi through relationship and direct service.
Community fundraising sustains the hana
A laulau fundraiser brings people together to resource the work and keep community-led care moving forward.
The record continues
Present day
02The work in view
One practice, carried through many forms.
Care for people, care for place, and a willingness to speak up remain connected throughout the record.
The record continues
The next chapter is made by the people who show up.
Learn how the work connects, or offer the time, resources, and relationships you can carry into it.