A Culturally Grounded Collegiate Recovery ʻOhana (family)
Located in The Queen Liliʻuokalani Center for Student Services room 313c at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Mālama Project seeks to provide a space where all students in recovery can feel safe, accepted, understood, and empowered. Cultural sensitivity and congruent practices, grounded in traditional Hawaiian values, are embedded in Mālama Projects practice. Mālama Project embraces all forms of recovery and students at any point in their journey.
Please explore our site to learn more about what we do here at Mālama Project and experience our approach to healing through Hawaiian values.
The Hawaiʻi Life in the Time of COVID-19 Project is designed to engage our Hawaiʻi communities in examining, articulating and sharing the impacts of COVID-19 upon our Hawaiʻi island ways of life, livelihoods, health, families, communities, education, values and outlooks for the future.
Would you like to participate in this project? We welcome your stories or reflections in any form. You can request to be interviewed or self-record your own audio or video oral history; share photos from your journal/diary entries or daily life; or submit poetry, mele, or other art you may be creating while staying at home and practicing social distancing.
We have designed this project so that our community can reflect upon, share, and document their experiences; acknowledge significant events; honor courageous acts and selfless sacrifices; and help to understand social and economic trends as they unfold.
It is important to document this island-wide and global health crisis in real time, track how to effectively and respectfully respond to it, map pathways of recovery, and project lessons on how to prepare and respond to future pandemics.
The Center for Oral History (COH) at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa is uniquely situated to provide an established and long-term platform for our Hawaiʻi families and communities to record their experiences living and working through this pandemic, drawing upon our cultural values and legacies.
Apply for Aid or leave a tip for Oahu’s displaced restaurant workers. In response to watching restaurants lay off mass amounts of employees across Honolulu, we have decided to band together as a community to support one another. Following the lead of cities around the country, we created a virtual way to tip and support individuals in the restaurant industry. On our web page/ spreadsheet you will find a growing list of Honolulu restaurant professionals (bartenders, servers, hosts, chefs etc.) from your local restaurants who have either currently been laid off due to recent closures or who have had their income dramatically reduced due to COVID-19 and are in need of financial help.
Co-Dependents Anonymous is a fellowship whose common purpose is to develop healthy relationships. The only requirement for membership is a desire for healthy and loving relationships. CoDA has a handy self-evaluation if you are curious.
Due to COVID-19 many meetings are either on hiatus or choosing to meet by video or phone conference. CoDA’s main website has a catalog of online meetings you are welcome to attend. While they continue to update meetings, there has been a lag in posting the new online listings due to the volume of requested changes. CoDA World Services suggests that you first reach out to local contacts asking them for direct information. Here is a list of meetings in Hawaiʻi with contact information if you want to talk to someone here or find an online meeting not listed. For other places, you can just tweak the search.
Unfortunately, not all elderly in Hawai'i have ‘ohana on island to look out for them during these very difficult times.
Our mission is to connect our kupuna with sponsors; those in our community who are free of COVID-19 symptoms, have not traveled outside of Hawai`i in the last 21 days and are willing to getting groceries, medication and necessary supplies to our kupuna so they can stay home while the COVID-19 outbreak passes.
Monisha Das Gupta: I attended a meeting with an activist group in LA today and am sharing as a model the mutual aid work of Ground Game LA. I am posting this as more of a model (particularly when it comes to language access). I realize that local resources are the most needed and useful.
If any of our students and friends have loved ones in the LA area, then perhaps this can serve as a resource. Those involved in Ground Game are committed to serving youth, trans folx, single parents, and those who remain houseless and hungry.
Solidarity network based on the concept of mutual aid.