Help Return Pu`ukua
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The Johnson Ohana Charitable Foundation, founded by Kim and Jack Johnson, has agreed to match all donations received by July 1, 2016 up to a total of $10,000. Please help your community take advantage of this generous matching gift opportunity to complete the protection of Waimea Valley!
Return Pu'ukua, Ho'i Hou Mai i Pu'ukua, is a community fundraising campaign to help return and preserve Pu’ukua , the last remaining privately owned parcel of land in Waimea Valley – a sacred cultural and historical area located in the North Shore of O`ahu island in the state of Hawai`i.
About the Campaign Ten years ago, the North Shore community led a movement to safeguard Waimea Valley from private interest groups aimed at developing this sacred place. Now, we are faced with a new, yet familiar challenge. The last remaining privately owned land parcel in Waimea Valley is up for sale. Lovingly known as Pu`ukua – named after the last Hawaiian caretaker of the land in 1852 – this property is the missing piece needed to complete the Waimea Valley ahupua`a (sustainable division of land for community members), and to complete the protection of the Valley, from mauka (mountain) to makai (sea).
Through our partnership with The Trust for Public Land, we raised $350,000 of the $450,000 needed to finalize the sale. Therefore, we must fundraise $100,000 by July 31st, 2016 to fully secure this property from outside interests. While this may seem like a tremendous undertaking, we are hopeful that history will repeat itself. However, in order for our fundraising campaign to be successful, we need folks like you to donate.
Why Pu`ukua?
Pu`ukua is home to a burial cave, a separate burial site of immense importance, and Hawaiian dry stacked walls. It abuts an ancient Hawaiian heiau ( a place of worship) that dates back to 1470AD and honors the Hawaiian god Lono who presides over peace, agriculture, and fertility.
Preserving Pu`ukua
Now that the vast majority of Waimea Valley is thriving under Hawaiian stewardship, through Hi`ipaka LLC, a not-for-profit organization, our goal is to preserve Pu`ukua through restoration efforts that include the removal of invasive plants, and the planting of native species in their place. Your donation will help lay the foundation for us to restore the area’s low land native forest, providing a unique respite and open-air learning center for community members and visitors to enjoy. Focused on connecting students to Hawaiian culture through direct experience in nature areas and cultural site restoration, the learning center will be an extension of our current suite of Common Core Standard curriculum and programs for grades K-12.
Kōkua Pu`ukua
Native Hawaiians lived, fished, farmed, and worshipped in Waimea for at least a thousand years. Waimea, known as ‘The Valley of the Priests,’ gained its title around 1040 when the ruler of O`ahu, Kamapua`a, awarded the land to the high priest, Lono-o-wohi, becoming a gathering place exclusively for spiritual advisors and religious leaders of Hawai`i’s ruling class. Since then, WaimeaValley’s past has taken many turns as its native inhabitants have come and gone, and its landscape exploited and modified by outside interest groups. Despite these changes, Waimea Valley is still respected as a sacred and powerful place filled with history.
In 2007, a nonprofit organization was created specifically to preserve and perpetuate the human, cultural, and natural resources of Waimea for generations through education and stewardship. Known as Hi`ipaka LLC, we are committed to caring for Waimea Valley.
We believe that by doing so, Waimea Valley will continue to thrive as a living pu`uhonua—a place of refuge—for and by kanaka (Native Hawaiians), for Hawai`i, and the world. To learn more about the work we do and the place we love, Waimea Valley,
visit us online at www.waimeavalley.net.
In Hawaiian, kōkua means to extend loving, sacrificial help to others for their benefit, and not for personal gain. Whether you live in the North Shore of O`ahu or in Ketchikan, Alaska, we ask you to please kōkua Pu`ukua. Give the gift of community by making a donation today. No amount is too small. Mahalo nui loa! (Thank you very much!)
Return Pu'ukua, Ho'i Hou Mai i Pu'ukua, is a community fundraising campaign to help return and preserve Pu’ukua , the last remaining privately owned parcel of land in Waimea Valley – a sacred cultural and historical area located in the North Shore of O`ahu island in the state of Hawai`i.
About the Campaign Ten years ago, the North Shore community led a movement to safeguard Waimea Valley from private interest groups aimed at developing this sacred place. Now, we are faced with a new, yet familiar challenge. The last remaining privately owned land parcel in Waimea Valley is up for sale. Lovingly known as Pu`ukua – named after the last Hawaiian caretaker of the land in 1852 – this property is the missing piece needed to complete the Waimea Valley ahupua`a (sustainable division of land for community members), and to complete the protection of the Valley, from mauka (mountain) to makai (sea).
Through our partnership with The Trust for Public Land, we raised $350,000 of the $450,000 needed to finalize the sale. Therefore, we must fundraise $100,000 by July 31st, 2016 to fully secure this property from outside interests. While this may seem like a tremendous undertaking, we are hopeful that history will repeat itself. However, in order for our fundraising campaign to be successful, we need folks like you to donate.
Why Pu`ukua?
Pu`ukua is home to a burial cave, a separate burial site of immense importance, and Hawaiian dry stacked walls. It abuts an ancient Hawaiian heiau ( a place of worship) that dates back to 1470AD and honors the Hawaiian god Lono who presides over peace, agriculture, and fertility.
Preserving Pu`ukua
Now that the vast majority of Waimea Valley is thriving under Hawaiian stewardship, through Hi`ipaka LLC, a not-for-profit organization, our goal is to preserve Pu`ukua through restoration efforts that include the removal of invasive plants, and the planting of native species in their place. Your donation will help lay the foundation for us to restore the area’s low land native forest, providing a unique respite and open-air learning center for community members and visitors to enjoy. Focused on connecting students to Hawaiian culture through direct experience in nature areas and cultural site restoration, the learning center will be an extension of our current suite of Common Core Standard curriculum and programs for grades K-12.
Kōkua Pu`ukua
Native Hawaiians lived, fished, farmed, and worshipped in Waimea for at least a thousand years. Waimea, known as ‘The Valley of the Priests,’ gained its title around 1040 when the ruler of O`ahu, Kamapua`a, awarded the land to the high priest, Lono-o-wohi, becoming a gathering place exclusively for spiritual advisors and religious leaders of Hawai`i’s ruling class. Since then, WaimeaValley’s past has taken many turns as its native inhabitants have come and gone, and its landscape exploited and modified by outside interest groups. Despite these changes, Waimea Valley is still respected as a sacred and powerful place filled with history.
In 2007, a nonprofit organization was created specifically to preserve and perpetuate the human, cultural, and natural resources of Waimea for generations through education and stewardship. Known as Hi`ipaka LLC, we are committed to caring for Waimea Valley.
We believe that by doing so, Waimea Valley will continue to thrive as a living pu`uhonua—a place of refuge—for and by kanaka (Native Hawaiians), for Hawai`i, and the world. To learn more about the work we do and the place we love, Waimea Valley,
visit us online at www.waimeavalley.net.
In Hawaiian, kōkua means to extend loving, sacrificial help to others for their benefit, and not for personal gain. Whether you live in the North Shore of O`ahu or in Ketchikan, Alaska, we ask you to please kōkua Pu`ukua. Give the gift of community by making a donation today. No amount is too small. Mahalo nui loa! (Thank you very much!)
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Hiʻipaka LLC
Organizer
Honolulu, HI
Hi'ipaka LLC
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